Signed by T.S. Eliot and William Everson
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Author: Eliot, T.S., translator
Title: Anabasis: A Poem by St. J. Perse
Place Published: London
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Date Published: 1930
Description: (8vo) original green cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First Edition, number of 350 numbered copies, signed by Eliot. Gallup A16b; NCBEL IV, 160.Signed by T.S. Eliot at limitation, as issued. William Everson‘s copy with his ownership signature on front free endpaper dated “July 3, 1941. Elk - Calif.“ This would have pre-dated Everson‘s incarceration as a conscientious objector to World War II by 2 years. Eliot‘s translation from the French of the epic poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger (who wrote under the pseudonym Saint-John Perse), which Eliot wrote is “of same importance as the later work of Mr. James Joyce.“
Condition Report: Minor soiling to cloth, else fine.
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Heading:
Author: Eliot, T.S., translator
Title: Anabasis: A Poem by St. J. Perse
Place Published: London
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Date Published: 1930
Description: (8vo) original green cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First Edition, number of 350 numbered copies, signed by Eliot. Gallup A16b; NCBEL IV, 160.Signed by T.S. Eliot at limitation, as issued. William Everson‘s copy with his ownership signature on front free endpaper dated “July 3, 1941. Elk - Calif.“ This would have pre-dated Everson‘s incarceration as a conscientious objector to World War II by 2 years. Eliot‘s translation from the French of the epic poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger (who wrote under the pseudonym Saint-John Perse), which Eliot wrote is “of same importance as the later work of Mr. James Joyce.“
Condition Report: Minor soiling to cloth, else fine.
