Prufrock, and other observations / by T. S. Eliot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schelling, Felix Emmanuel, 1858-1945 (donor) (811 El45P)

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

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

Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932 (bookplate) (Welsch Eliot Collection)

Physical Description:

40 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Manufacture:

West Norwood, London : Printed at The Complete Press.

Other Title:

Prufrock

Place of Publication:

London : The Egoist, Ltd., Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, 1917.

Contents:

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Portrait of a lady

Preludes

Rhapsody on a windy night

Morning at the window

The Boston Evening Transcript

Aunt Helen

Cousin Nancy

Mr. Apollinax

Hysteria

Conversation galante

La figlia che piange.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Published June 1917 at 1s.; 500 copies printed."--Cf. Gallup.

"This book was not published in the United States, but its contents are included in 'Poems' (1920) ... and in American editions of subsequent collections."--Cf. Gallup.

Heavy buff paper wrappers lettered in black.

Local Notes:

811 EL45P copy is missing pp. 15-16.

Culture Class Collection copy has Brentano's label pasted on inside back wrapper.

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

Welsch Eliot Collection copy was Lytton Strachey's copy. Housed in box.

Cited in:

Gallup, D.C. Eliot (rev. ed.), A1

OCLC:

1006049