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ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). Ara Vos Prec. [London:] The Ovid Press, [1920]. 4°. Initials and colophon by Edward Wadsworth, title misspelt on title and half title. Original black cloth boards and yellow cloth spine (faded), with printed label, unopened. ONE OF 264 COPIES, THIS UNNUMBERED. Contains the first appearance of "Gerontion" and the only printing of "Ode" in Eliot's lifetime. Although entirely unopened this copy is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title.
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) The relations between Ottoline Morrell and T. S. Eliot are not easy to decipher. He was lastingly grateful to Morrell for her hospitality to him and his ailing wife, Vivienne, and yet she was clearly puzzled by him: 'Where does his queer neurasthenic poetry come from, I wonder?' she asked Bertrand Russell. However, Robert Gathorne-Hardy records that she encouraged her visitors to read him and, for his part, Eliot never published anything wounding about her: indeed, at the end of his life he can be assumed to have promoted the publication of Morrell's Memoirs by Faber.
ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). Ara Vos Prec. [London:] The Ovid Press, [1920]. 4°. Initials and colophon by Edward Wadsworth, title misspelt on title and half title. Original black cloth boards and yellow cloth spine (faded), with printed label, unopened. ONE OF 264 COPIES, THIS UNNUMBERED. Contains the first appearance of "Gerontion" and the only printing of "Ode" in Eliot's lifetime. Although entirely unopened this copy is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title.

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ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). Ara Vos Prec. [London:] The Ovid Press, [1920]. 4°. Initials and colophon by Edward Wadsworth, title misspelt on title and half title. Original black cloth boards and yellow cloth spine (faded), with printed label, unopened. ONE OF 264 COPIES, THIS UNNUMBERED. Contains the first appearance of "Gerontion" and the only printing of "Ode" in Eliot's lifetime. Although entirely unopened this copy is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title.

Ottoline Morrell had been introduced to Eliot by Bertrand Russell in 1916, after which she took a close interest in his wellbeing. During Eliot's mental crisis in 1921, she recommended treatment by the psychotheraphist Dr Roger Vittoz, in Lausanne, where Eliot was to compose much of The Waste Land. Gallup A4a.
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