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Lot 118
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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600
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$2,375
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Lot Description
ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Cocktail Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (spine slightly sunned).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, THE RARE FIRST ISSUE with p.35 in the uncancelled state, according to Gallup, one of "not more than ten copies (at most)." The Cocktail Party was the most popular of Eliot's plays during his lifetime. RARE: We trace only one copy of the first issue of this edition at auction in the last 40 years. Gallup A55b.