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London: Faber & Faber, 1932. Hardcover Octavo. Hardcover. Fair. grey cloth, red lettering, 31 pp, inscribed by owner to front endpaper, cloth soiled, spine torn with a piece missing Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London: Faber & Faber Limited , 1932. Blue cloth on boards with red titles; light rubbing and soilings. Spine: 3cm of top skin missing, foot with thin wear Edges: light foxings. Eps: name 27/6/35 and another signature. Frontsi: owners bookplate. Contents: just a couple of faint old spots/ or small yellowed smudge, couple of small thin marks. Binding is VG. 31p Dj: jacket separated at spine and at spine of rear flap. Soiling & rubbing. Head of front jacket with small section missing. Top-edge with small open wear, tears and chips. Head & foot spine and to head & foot of flaps spines with small open wear, tears & chips. Small price-cut to all four corners. . First Edition. HB. VG/Good.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A neat first edition of T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, his first attempt at writing a verse drama. First edition. Eliot's first attempt at writing a verse drama, although the piece was never completed. Hence, Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. The scenes are typically performed together as a one-act play. Written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets and a central figure in Modernist poetry. Fragment of Burnt Norton to rear endpaper. In the original blue paper covered board binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front and rear endpapers. Very Good

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 31 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Yellow spine with blue text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has spine edges chipped off, large open tearing to edges of both covers, and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has writing in pencil on front endpaper. Shelved Room A. 1374147. Special Collections.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); pale blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-31,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends, with a vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 2s.6d. net), spine-sunned, lightly dusty, with moderate wear, some shallow loss to spine ends, creases to flap edges, with a small tape mend on verso; Very Good. Fragmentary scenes from a one-act play, with no corresponding American edition. GALLUP A23.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First in Book Form. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light blue paper covered boards, lettered in red. Rubbed with slight exposure at heel of spine, covers tanning just a bit toward edges. 1st ptg. 31 pp. Yellow dust jacket mildly soiled, with rubbed front joint, 1/4" loss at head of spine and small chip at heel of front joint, small hole at lower front panel corner, 1/2" closed tear along top rear edge, tanned spine panel, now in mylar. 1st collected and 1st in book form, reprinting pieces originally published as "Fragment of a Prologue" and "Fragment of an Agon" in The Criterion..

1932. ELIOT, T.S. SWEENEY AGONISTES. London: Faber & Faber, (1932). First edition. Ted Morrison's copy, with his ink ownership. Small 8vo., blue paper-covered boards. Slight soil to boards; crown chipped, lightly nicked, heel nicked and bumped, with just slight splitting to joints at bottom edge; sun to spine. Hinges tender with just slight foxing, soil internally. A serviceable copy.

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. A little pencil marginalia to a couple of pages (could be erased). Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 31, [1 (blank)] pages. Light blue boards with red lettering on spine.Page dimensions: 187 x 121mm. "These fragments, originally published as FRAGMENT OF A PROLOGUE and FRAGMENT OF AN AGON in 'The Criterion' are here for the first time reprinted in book form." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

FABER Book. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ. BOOKPLATE First edition, first printing, first state binding. Original blue paper-covered boards with titles in red to the spine, in dustwrapper..

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1932 (first edition thus). Octavo, 31 pages. Papered boards; slight loss to the paper along the top edges of the covers; a decent copy with the dustwrapper sunned on the spine, with minor loss along the top edge. 'These fragments, originally published as "Fragment of a Prologue" and "Fragment of an Agon" in "The Criterion" are here for the first time reprinted in book form' (dustwrapper blurb). The front flyleaf is inscribed in blue pencil 'To Cecily, not for Xmas but for all-year-round love. K. Dec 15/42'. Cecily is Cecily Crozier (1911-2006); she edited and published the rare avant-garde literary journal 'Comment' in Melbourne between 1940 and 1947. K is the poet Karl Shapiro (1911-2000), an American serviceman based in Australia during the Second World War; he was Cecily Crozier's lover at the time. Offered together with a copy of 'Dramas from the Sky' by Max Harris (1942);… Read More

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1932. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full grey hardcover with red lettering on the spine, light wear, endpaper abraided at the bottom. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31; [1]. Publisher's light blue paper to boards, red titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 3s 6d to lower. Interior bright and clean with the faintest bit of spotting to margins and edges. Spine and board extremities toned. Tearing to tail. Dust-jacket lightly spotted to lower. Toning, tearing, and archival repairs to jacket spine. Jacket corners gently bumped. Very good. T.S. Eliot's unfinished modernist drama, its two parts 'Fragment of a Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' first appearing in the Criterion Magazine during the 1920s. The play features Eliot's recurring character Sweeney, who emerges in other works such as the poem Sweeney Among the Nightingales.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1932 (first edition thus). Octavo, 31 pages. Papered boards slightly bumped at the foot of the spine; top edge a little foxed; pastedowns lightly discoloured; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little sunned, marked and rubbed. 'These fragments, originally published as "Fragment of a Prologue" and "Fragment of an Agon" in "The Criterion" are here for the first time reprinted in book form'.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Light toning to spine of boards; jacket lightly soiled and toned at edges, but a nice, fresh copy.. 8vo. 31 pages. Original blue boards; yellow dust jacket printed in blue. FIRST EDITION, first binding (blue). Gallup A23.

Faber and Faber, London., 1932. First edition. First issue of blue boards lettered in red. There was no U.S. edition. Octavo. 31 pages.Very good indeed in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine. Not so easy to find in reasonable condition.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1932 31 +1 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: Clean, ivory, tight; small Grolier bookshop sticker to ffep, owner bookplate to ep. Cover: lt blue, red stamped text to spine; tail has very small wear spots , spine creased in 2 locations, 1/4" surface cigarette mark to front, edges lightly tanned. Cover: unclipped in Brodart, yellow with blue printing to all surfacest; edges and spine tanned, wear to spine edges, 1/16" chip across spine head, a little overall soiling, 1/4" through cigarette burn corresponds to mark on book cover. Appears to be the only edition of this work. From the collection and w/bookplate of philosopher and Berkeley and Harvard Professor David Wight Prall. An excellent find in great condition.