Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional revised hardcover edition, later printing of T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition) by T. S. Eliot, complete with a price clipped dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1991 Harcourt Brace. 42nd printing with partial number line on the copyright page.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
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