From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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About this Item
8vo. 9 x 6 inches. 16 pp. In limp cream card wrapper with black titles. Handmade paper with deckled fore edge. Some spotting and staining of wrapper, but otherwise a very good copy with a clean interior. Contemporary ink signature at top of front wrapper. Second impression of the last of the Four Quartets, in the original wartime format. The poem has a theme of purgation by fire and reflects the experience of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire was the location of a small High Church Anglican community founded in 1626, dispersed in the Civil War and re-formed in 1657. A scarce variant on handmade paper. POETRY 20th CENTURY POETRY 20TH CENTURY POETRY. Seller Inventory # 27643
Bibliographic Details
Title: LITTLE GIDDING. Second Impression,
Publisher: Faber and Faber 24 Russell Square., London
Publication Date: 1943
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