The confidential clerk

by Thomas Stearns Eliot

$3,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Faber & Faber, 1954 . First edition, first issue with the misprint Ihad for I had on p. 7; first issue dust jacket with the price 10s 6d. 8vo, pp. 134, 2 ; shallow chips at top and bottom of spine; a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. This copy inscribed: For Conrad Potter Aiken / off'ly and respf'ly / from / Thomas Stearns Eliot / 6.iv.54. Eliot rarely used his full name in his inscriptions but does so here for his Harvard

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