Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)

The Confidential Clerk

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The White Dust Jacket printed in brown and black is with price and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has shelf handling and mild age-fading, small rubs on the corners and spine tips. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall. 160 pages. First American Edition.

Ref: Gallup, A-64


'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.' [Times Literary Supplement] The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.

Background Information:
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

Item #014693

Price: $85.00