Journey of the Magi by Eliot T S (10 results)

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1970, 30 pp., paperback, geniet, lichte verkleuring en gebruikssporen maar zeer mooi exemplaar.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. No. 8 of the Ariel Poems. One corner with a tiny bit of rubbing, wraps very mildly toned, faint remnant of a p.o. inscription on the rear cover.

Softcover. 12mo (7.25" x 4.5"), printed yellow wrappers. Unpaginated, illus. second leaf, 4 pp. Faint pencil note at upper left of front wrapper reading "Oxford July 1939." CONDITION: Very good, wrappers slightly worn with minimal darkening, slight separation at head and foot of spine. Number 7 of Faber & Gwyer's Ariel Poems series. The series was a joint effort of Faber & Gwyer and the Curwen Press. Most of their publications consist of a previously unpublished poem accompanied by a high-quality reproduction of a painting or drawing by a contemporary artist. Interestingly, the poem's authors were completely uninvolved in the selection of the artwork. The imprint primarily operated from 1927-1931, publishing thirty-eight poems, including four by Eliot, and then ran again for a brief time in the 1950s. REFERENCES: Gallup A9b; "The Ariel Poems," at The Graphic Arts Collection of the Firestone Library online.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover booklet. Bright yellow wraps with black lettering. The wraps are neatly split at the crease. Small chip missing from bottom edge of rear. Small sewn booklet inside in very good condition. No date or traditional title page. Three tone illustration by E. Knight Kauffer on the first page. Eliot's poem on the middle two pages. List of the other Ariel Poems (8 of them) on the next page. Scarce. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. no date, 1927. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated yellow wraps. 4 pp. Frontis illustration, and cover, by E. McKnight Kaufer. A single poem by T.S. Eliot printed in this somewhat limited edition format. VERY GOOD condition. Minor toning, soiling and wrinkling to the covers.

Sewn Wrappers. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustwrapper. First Edition. Gallup A9a. A Very Good or better copy in sewn yellow decorated wrappers, as issued. 5000cc. Thread a little pulled. Starting along spine-fold. Very light soil. Two page poem, with cover design and first page designs by Kauffer. Issued as #8 in Faber's "Ariel Poems" series. Clean, with no writing or foxing or other defacements. Scarce. Q17856.

Condition: Very fine copy. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers. Very fine copy. First American edition. One of 27 copies printed to secure copyright, of which only 12 were for sale. Gallup A9c.

First in this format. Twelvemo. Illustrated. Original wrappers. Good.Ariel Poems #8, #25, #35[with]The Three voice of Poetry. London: National Book League, 1953. Very good.The Dry Salvages. London: Faber and Faber, 1941. Good.

Condition: Very Good. Edward McKnight Kauffer (illustrator). First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched yellow paper wrapper printed in black on pages i (color frontispiece) and iv (series title and no.), folded over heavy blanks; back wrapper neatly separated at the seam, but wrapper clean and crisp. No. 8 of the Ariel Poems [Gallup A9a]. This is one of the early "Ariel Poems" series published by Faber & Gwyer (later ones by Faber & Faber) which included each one poem by T. S. Eliot accompanied by a color illustration done by one of several artists who contributed to the series. Each was printed in a run of 3000 to 5000 copies. From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965.