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51. Poems 1909-1925 ELIOT, T.S.
Faber & Gwyer, 1925. First edition. Original blue cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black, in printed dust jacket. A fine copy with an ownership name to the front endpaper in a very good dustwrapper which is a little tanned on the spine and with minor wear to the spine ends and a couple of short closed tears. [45435] £3,750 Eliot’s important early collection which marked the start of his association with Faber, and collects all the key early works including Prufrock, The Waste Land and The Hollow Men. A scarce book in dustwrapper, particularly one so well preserved.
52. On Poetry And Poets ELIOT, T.S.
Faber and Faber, 1957. First edition. Inscribed by T.S. Eliot for his colleague Charles Mon- tieth to the title page on publication day, “Inscribed for Charles Montieth in amity, T.S. Eliot 13.ix.57”. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper, two chips to the upper panel. [44182] £3,750 An exceptional association copy, uniting two of the great figures in modern publishing. See notes below.
53. Collected Poems 1909-1962 ELIOT, T.S.
Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition. Inscribed by T.S. Eliot for his colleague Charles Mon- tieth to the front free endpaper four weeks prior to publication, “Inscribed for Charles Montieth, T.S. Eliot 29.viii.63”. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper, a little wear and tear with a central chip to the spine. [44183] £4,500 An exceptional association copy, uniting two of the great figures in modern publishing. T.S. Eliot joined Faber in its infancy of the 1920s, and shaped the editorial direction of the house as it published some of the great literary authors of the coming decades. Charles Montieth joined the firm in 1954, and within three years had published four of the great works of the decade, William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, John Osborne’s Look Back In Anger and Ted Hughes’s The Hawk In The Rain. Eliot and Montieth worked closely at Faber until Eliot’s death in 1965. This volume of Eliot’s col- lected poems would be the last published in his lifetime, and “contains all Mr Eliot’s poetry to the end of 1962 that he wishes to preserve.” Presentation copies are scarce. Gallup A74. PROVENANCE: From the library of Charles Montieth (1921-1995), editor and director at Faber; Rosemary Goad (1928-2021), the first female director of Faber & Faber.
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