Eliot, T. S.

Murder in the Cathedral

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Black cloth with gilt spine titles; Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has age-toned with small rubs on spine tips and a 5mm triangle loss upper front edge near the spine still has the price of $2.50. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; 88 pages.

Fourth edition with code v.9.61. with rearrangements and deletions as have been made by experimentation in the production.

Ref: Gallup A-29


Written at the time of rising Fascism in Central Europe, the play, deals with an individual's opposition to authority. Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event.

Item #011720

Price: $29.95