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    Sale 6136

    Printed Books,including Travel and Natural History

    London, South Kensington

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    4 June 1993

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    Lot 264

    ELIOT, Thomas Stearns. The Family Reunion, London, Faber and Faber, 1945, 8°, second impression, inscribed on title: ''For Alan Wheatley, gratefully, by the author, T.S. Eliot,'' and, on the verso of the endpaper opposite, by all the members of the cast at the ''Mercury Theatre October 31st 1946,'' including Wheatley, who played ''Harry'' (occasional pencil directions in text), original cloth, dust-jacket (torn at head and foot of spine with slight loss); and 2 other copies of the play, one also inscribed by Eliot to Wheatley, the other the actor's working copy, with his stage directions. (3)

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    GBP 440

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    GBP 400 - GBP 600

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    ELIOT, Thomas Stearns. The Family Reunion, London, Faber and Faber, 1945, 8°, second impression, inscribed on title: "For Alan Wheatley, gratefully, by the author, T.S. Eliot," and, on the verso of the endpaper opposite, by all the members of the cast at the "Mercury Theatre October 31st 1946," including Wheatley, who played "Harry" (occasional pencil directions in text), original cloth, dust-jacket (torn at head and foot of spine with slight loss); and 2 other copies of the play, one also inscribed by Eliot to Wheatley, the other the actor's working copy, with his stage directions. (3)

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