Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot. First American Edition stated, 2022 Farrar, Straus & Giroux. First Printing with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
The exterior of the book is in Fine condition with spotless boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and bright, making this an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, the price intact on the front flap and a small crease on the rear flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios. “Perhaps the most significant event in Eliot scholarship in the past twenty-five years” (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Christopher Ricks.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
