Eliot, T. S. | Eliot's second book of poetry, published by the Hogarth Press

Property from the Robert S Brown Collection

Eliot, T. S. 

Poems. Richmond: L. & V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1919

8vo (225 x 145 mm). Original marbled paper wrappers with white paper label printed in black, sewn; covers detached and worn, chips and losses along edges, text block splitting along spine at head, the first blank and terminal page separated. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. 

First edition, second state

Eliot's second book of poetry was hand-printed and hand-bound by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth press. Leonard later wrote that "The publication of T.S. Eliot’s Poems must be marked as a red letter day for the Press and for us."

A scarce and desirable title in any condition, one of "fewer than 250" copies printed, inclusive of the first state.

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Gallup A3