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45 ELIOT, T. S. Poems 1909–1925. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd, 1925 “this is the way the world ends” First edition, scarce in the jacket. The collection selects from Prufrock (1917), Poems (1920), and also prints The Waste Land (1922, here including for the first time the dedication to Ezra Pound as “il miglior fabbro”), and The Hollow Men , for which this is the first appearance. Octavo. Original blue cloth, printed paperspine label, edges untrimmed. Contemporary Foyle’s booksellers ticket to front pastedown. Bump to head of spine and rear board, extremities rubbed, edges and occasional margins foxed, offsetting to endpapers, closed tear to fore edge of front free endpaper, a very good copy with clean boards, in like unclipped lightly soiled jacket, spine browned, mark to head, extremities rubbed and nicked, two closed tears to spine and front flap corners, presenting well. ¶ Gallup A8. £2,750 [158560] 46 ELIOT, T. S. Ash Wednesday. New York: The Foundation Press Inc.; Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1930 First edition, limited issue, signed and numbered by the author, this number 534 of 600 copies. Of these, 200 were offered for sale in the United Kingdom and the remainder exported to the United States. The UK
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trade issue appeared five days later in a run of 2,000 copies on 29 April, and the same number of copies were printed for the US trade issue in September. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered within quatrefoil gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Spine and fore edge of front cover
toned, couple spots to cloth, otherwise bright, offsetting to endpapers; a near-fine copy. ¶ Gallup A15a. £2,000 [157014] 47 FAIRY TALES. The Palace of Enchantment, or, Entertaining and Instructive Fairy Tales. London: Printed for W. Lane, 1788 First edition of this scarce collection of fairy tales published by Lane; no copy located in the British Library. The anthology contains 11 stories, including Madame d’Aulnoy’s “La Princesse Belle Etoile et la Prince Cheri” and Straparolo’s “Fortunio”, and was designed, according to the short preface, “to captivate the mind to the pleasing task of its duty”. William Lane (1746–1814) became noted in the late 18th century as a publisher of Gothic novels, particularly by women authors. His Minerva Press, founded in 1790, has been recognised as “the first to apply mass marketing techniques to the creation and distribution of literature” (Tropp, p. 15). Lane was also an extremely prolific publisher of fairy tales, and it has been estimated that in only 12 years, between 1788 and the end of the century, he “would have published twelve thousand copies of fairy
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