Animula (Olive Cotton’s copy)

A$200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

/ by T. S. Eliot. Wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes . London : Faber Faber, [1929]. Series: The Ariel Poems, no. 23. Small octavo (184 x 122 mm), illustrated yellow sewn wrappers (scattered small marks, sunned along spine, nick to bottom edge of upper wrapper); [3] pp., comprising a colour wood engraving by Gertrude Hermes followed by Eliot s 2-page poem; discreet ownership signature of Australian photographer Olive Cotton (1911-2003) to upper margin of the first page; pages with some very light creasing to lower margins.

• Binding: Hardcover

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