Four quartets / T. S. Eliot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Contributor:

Erwin K. and Carol Welsch T.S. Eliot Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schleifer, Edith and Steven (donors) (RBC copy)

Schleifer, Benjamin (autograph) (RBC copy)

Welsch, Erwin K. (former owner) (Welsch Eliot Collection)

Harves, Carol Anne (donor) (Welsch Eliot Collection)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 39 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.

Notes:

Poems.

First edition, second impression. Cf. D. Gallup.

"There were two impressions of this book before publication. Only the first bears the words 'First American edition' on the verso of the title-leaf. In this first impressin, the margins of many pages were incorrect because of faulty imposition of the formes as a result of the use of unskilled war-time labour. The entire impression would have been destroyed except that it was necessary to meet the announced publication date in order to preserve copyright, and consequently 788 copies for review and other purposes were distributed before the corrected impression was ready. On 5 May 1943, the 3377 copies then remaining of the first impression were destroyed and replaced by the second impression of 3500 copies. These do not carry the edition note on the verso of the title-leaf."-- Cf. Gallup.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy 1 In original dust jacket.

Welsch Eliot Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Carol Anne Harves.

Welsch Eliot Collection copy without dustjacket.

Cited in:

Gallup, D.C. Eliot (rev. ed.), A43a

OCLC:

1577294