ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). Collected Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1936. 8°. Original blue cloth (waterstained), pink dust-jacket printed in blue and black (discoloured at backstrip, frayed, with a few tears). FIRST APPEARANCE OF 'BURNT NORTON', inaugurating the sequence that was to become Four Quartets. Gallup A32. PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'F. S. Flint from T. S. Eliot 31.iii.36.' (Eliot scrupulously observed the difference between books 'from' himself and those signed 'for' those who asked.) The book was published on 2 April. Gallup A32a.
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR Dr MAX NÄNNY, ZURICH Max Nänny (1932-2006) was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Zurich where he acquired an international reputation for his studies in a number of areas of modern English Literature. Over a period of more than forty years he collected a range of first editions of the principal Modernist authors. His close friend from the previous generation of teachers, Professor Dr Max Wildi (1904-1982), was Professor for English Language and Literature at the Eidgenvssische Technische Hochschule Zurich. Max Wildi contributed a number of items to Max Nänny's collection, some of which had been given to him by the authors themselves.
ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). Collected Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1936. 8°. Original blue cloth (waterstained), pink dust-jacket printed in blue and black (discoloured at backstrip, frayed, with a few tears). FIRST APPEARANCE OF 'BURNT NORTON', inaugurating the sequence that was to become Four Quartets. Gallup A32. PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'F. S. Flint from T. S. Eliot 31.iii.36.' (Eliot scrupulously observed the difference between books 'from' himself and those signed 'for' those who asked.) The book was published on 2 April. Gallup A32a.

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ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). Collected Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1936. 8°. Original blue cloth (waterstained), pink dust-jacket printed in blue and black (discoloured at backstrip, frayed, with a few tears). FIRST APPEARANCE OF 'BURNT NORTON', inaugurating the sequence that was to become Four Quartets. Gallup A32. PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'F. S. Flint from T. S. Eliot 31.iii.36.' (Eliot scrupulously observed the difference between books 'from' himself and those signed 'for' those who asked.) The book was published on 2 April. Gallup A32a.

IMPORTANT TRIBUTE FROM THE DOMINANT POETIC VOICE OF HIS GENERATION to a poet who had begun publishing earlier than he had, but by this time had ceased writing poetry. Eliot admired Flint's work, and wrote to him before launching The Criterion to ask whether he would contribute translations. Flint became an informal adviser to the journal, and contributed poetry reviews, as well as translation, so indirectly prompting F. R. Leavis's only contribution: a letter of protest.
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