ELIOT, T.S. Journey of the Magi. London: Curwen Press for Faber & Gwyer, [1927]. 8° (183 x 120mm.). Three-colour frontispiece by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original yellow boards, upper cover lettered and with a design in black by McKnight Kauffer. Number 17 of 350 copies on Zonen hand-made paper; Ash-Wednesday. London: Curwen Press for Faber & Faber Ltd., 1930. 8° (193 x 127mm.). Original cloth, dust-jacket, t.e.g. FIRST EDITION. - POUND, Ezra. Selected Poems edited with an introduction by T.S.Eliot. London: Butler & Tanner Ltd. for Faber & Gwyer, 1928. 8° (187 x 127mm.). Original cloth (spine soiled, endpapers lightly soiled). Provenance: Charles Whibley (EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed: 'for Charles Whibley from T.S.Eliot 22.XI.28'). FIRST EDITION. - ELIOT, T.S., and others. Catholic Anthology 1914-1915. London: Chiswick Press for Elkin Mathews, 1915. 8° (187 x 124mm.). (Some light spotting). Original decorated boards (spine soiled and slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION (first publication in bookform of any of Eliot's poems). - With four others, all first editions, including The Criterion vol.I, no.1, October 1922 which includes the first printing of Eliot's The Waste Land. (8)

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ELIOT, T.S. Journey of the Magi. London: Curwen Press for Faber & Gwyer, [1927]. 8° (183 x 120mm.). Three-colour frontispiece by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original yellow boards, upper cover lettered and with a design in black by McKnight Kauffer. Number 17 of 350 copies on Zonen hand-made paper; Ash-Wednesday. London: Curwen Press for Faber & Faber Ltd., 1930. 8° (193 x 127mm.). Original cloth, dust-jacket, t.e.g. FIRST EDITION. - POUND, Ezra. Selected Poems edited with an introduction by T.S.Eliot. London: Butler & Tanner Ltd. for Faber & Gwyer, 1928. 8° (187 x 127mm.). Original cloth (spine soiled, endpapers lightly soiled). Provenance: Charles Whibley (EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed: 'for Charles Whibley from T.S.Eliot 22.XI.28'). FIRST EDITION. - ELIOT, T.S., and others. Catholic Anthology 1914-1915. London: Chiswick Press for Elkin Mathews, 1915. 8° (187 x 124mm.). (Some light spotting). Original decorated boards (spine soiled and slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION (first publication in bookform of any of Eliot's poems). - With four others, all first editions, including The Criterion vol.I, no.1, October 1922 which includes the first printing of Eliot's The Waste Land. (8)

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