拍品 60
60
ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets, London, Faber and Faber, 1944, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED by the author on title in green ink and with MANUSCRIPT CORRECTION by Eliot, also in green ink, to line 19 of "The Dry Salvages" (preliminaries mildly affected by damp), original cloth, dust-jacket [Gallup A43b:"6000 copies printed"]; and 2 others by Eliot, both inscribed to John Arlott. (3)

细节
ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets, London, Faber and Faber, 1944, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED by the author on title in green ink and with MANUSCRIPT CORRECTION by Eliot, also in green ink, to line 19 of "The Dry Salvages" (preliminaries mildly affected by damp), original cloth, dust-jacket [Gallup A43b:"6000 copies printed"]; and 2 others by Eliot, both inscribed to John Arlott. (3)

In line 19 of this copy, which reads: "The starfish, the hermit crab, the whale's backbone", "hermit" is crossed through and replaced with "horse-shoe." Eliot has also signed the correction with his initials. (3)