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129
130
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Ara Vos Prec.
Initials and colophon by EdwardWadsworth. 4to, origi-
nal black cloth boards and yellow cloth spine, front cover detached, spine chipped, scuffed,
paper spine label rubbed and browned with loss of letters; with 8-page printed poem
“Perch’ lo non Spero” [offprint?] as it appeared with French translation on facing pages in
the Spring 1928 issue of Commerce, that subsequently comprised Part I of AshWednesday
(1930), mounted to front free endpaper.
[London:] The Ovid Press, [1920]
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION
,
NUMBER
235
FROM A TOTAL ISSUE OF
264
COPIES
.
The title is incorrectly
printed on the half-title and title pages (AraVus Prec), but correct on spine as in all copies. Gallup A4a.
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Ash Wednesday.
Small 8vo, gilt-decorated blue cloth, trace of rub-
bing to spine tips, gilt bright; contents clean.
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
. Number 240 of 600
copies. Gallup A15a.
NewYork and London, 1930
[600/900]
WITH
-
Perse. Anabasis. 8vo, publisher’s cloth. Review copy of the First American edition, revised and
corrected by Eliot from the British edition. Stamped “Review Copy / Publication Date / Mar 3
1938 Price $1.25” on front endpaper. Gallup A16d.
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats * Four Quartets.
Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, small gouge on front cover edge of Cats, four
leaves with closed tears and creases; Quartets with spine gilt rubbed off and one signature
split; Cats in dust jacket, corners clipped, v-shaped tear to bottom of front cover panel with
loss of a few letters.
NewYork: Harcourt, Brace, (1939); (1943)
[800/1,200]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS
,
LATER IMPRESSIONS
.
EACH INSCRIBED
for Allen Hawkridge and
dated “7.vi.47” with first title signed “Old Possum,” the second with Eliot’s signature. Gallup,
A34b;A43a.