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The idea of a Christian society / by T. S. Eliot.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HN37.A6 E45 1939 Welsch Eliot copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian sociology--Anglican authors.
- Christian sociology.
- Anglican authors.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Welsch, Erwin K. (former owner) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Harves, Carol Anne (donor) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First Edition.].
- Manufacture:
- Glasgow : Printed in Great Britain by R. MacLehose and Company Limited, The University Press Glasgow.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber and Faber Limited, 24 Russell Square, [1939]
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "First published in October MCMXXXIX by Faber and Faber Limited ... "
- "The three lectures which, with some revision and division, are here printed, were delivered in March 1939 at the invitation of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, on the Boutwood Foundation"--Preface.
- "Appendix reprints 'The Church's Message to the World' from the Listener (17 February) 1937."--Cf. Gallup.
- Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt down the spine.
- Bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 67-90).
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Welsch Eliot Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Carol Anne Harves.
- Welsch Eliot Collection copy has dust jacket.
- Welsch Eliot Collection copy has inscription: "Xmas 1939 with love to you both Dorothy."
- Cited in:
- Gallup, D.C. Eliot (rev. ed.), A35
- OCLC:
- 1005210
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