Details
ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1943.
8o. Original black cloth; dust jacket printed in black, cream, and grey designed by E. McKnight Kauffer (minor edgewear).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, with "first American edition" on copyright page. The first impression consisted of 4165 copies, of which 3377 were destroyed because the margins were incorrectly set (as a result of unskilled war-time labor). The remaining 788 copies were used to preserve copyright and for review purposes. Connolly, The Modern Movement 92; Gallup A43a.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, with "first American edition" on copyright page. The first impression consisted of 4165 copies, of which 3377 were destroyed because the margins were incorrectly set (as a result of unskilled war-time labor). The remaining 788 copies were used to preserve copyright and for review purposes. Connolly, The Modern Movement 92; Gallup A43a.