Help with identification of a book. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets.
Having a clear out and I have discovered a copy of The Four Quartets as a single volume. No dust jacket and the spine is crushed. The spine has, in faded gold capitals, the book title and the word Faber. (The publisher.)
On the inside someone has hand written in ink a name and address and a date November 1944. The inside cover indicates it is Faber and Faber, London. The date is Mcmxliv which I take to mean 1944. Is this a first edition UK copy? This is because there is no other indication on it, so I would assume so. Any help confirming this would be useful. Additionally it would be useful to have an insurance value ... Thanks kindly. |
Help with identification of a book. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets.
On 4/23/2011 12:17 PM, RobT0 wrote:
Having a clear out and I have discovered a copy of The Four Quartets as a single volume. No dust jacket and the spine is crushed. The spine has, in faded gold capitals, the book title and the word Faber. (The publisher.) On the inside someone has hand written in ink a name and address and a date November 1944. The inside cover indicates it is Faber and Faber, London. The date is Mcmxliv which I take to mean 1944. Is this a first edition UK copy? This is because there is no other indication on it, so I would assume so. Any help confirming this would be useful. Additionally it would be useful to have an insurance value ... Thanks kindly. The poems constituting The Four Quartets first appeared individually in pamphlet form from Faber between 1940 - 1942. That would be the true first. In 1943, Harcourt first published the Four Quartets as a collected work in America. The first British publication of the collected work was in 1944 by Faber. Now it appears that two printings were made in 1944. There may be information on the copyright page which clarifies the issue. To be sure which printing you have, you should consult Donald Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (1954). -- Francis A. Miniter In dem Lande der Pygmäen gibt es keine Uniformen, weder Abzeichen, noch irgend welche Normen, Und Soldaten sind dort nicht zu sehen. Siegfried von Vegesack, "Es gibt keine Uniformen" from In dem Lande der Pygmäen |
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