Eliot (T.S.) Poems 1909-1925
£250
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1925.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
The first edition of this important collection, gathering selections from Prufrock (1917), Poems (1920), as well as printing ‘The Waste Land’ with the dedication to Ezra Pound for the first time.
In stock
Internally very good; cloth slightly dulled at spine with minor rubbing to corners, some darkening to spine label.
Gallup A8b.
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