T.S. Ash-Wednesday.

by ELIOT

£2,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Limited edition signed by Eliot ELIOT, T.S. Ash-Wednesday. London: The Curwen Press . 1930. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt title and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, else untrimmed, housed in original brown paper-covered slipcase; pp. 28; cloth a touch faded, a few tiny spots of discolouration, slipcase slightly rubbed to extremities and beginning to split along the spine; light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good, clean copy. First edition, number 584 of 600 copies, signed by the poet. “Ash-Wednesday” (or “Ash Wednesday”) was written during the period of Eliot’s conversion to Anglicanism. Marking the Christian fast day signifying the beginning of Lent, a day of penitence to acknowledge one's sins, the poem revolves around the hope for salvation in a blasphemous world. Gallup A15a. SKU: 2120217

• Binding: Hardcover

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