Ash Wednesday
New York: The Fountain Press, 1930.
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 14 of 600 copies, signed by T. S. Eliot. Of these, 200 were offered for sale in Britain and the rest exported to the United States. Bound in publisher's blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt; lacking the scarce glassine dust jacket; housed in publisher's brown card slipcase. Near Fine with light wear and light soiling. Light spotting to front and rear endpapers. Slipcase is lightly soiled, toned and worn, neatly repaired along the joints. A very lovely copy of Eliot's richly allegorical long poem written during his religious conversion to Anglicanism. Gallup A15a. Item #140948012
Price: $4,500