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March 1925 (Volume LXXVIII, Number3) I-IV = publisher's ads + 1 leaf with a black and white reproduction of a painting (Madame Elizabeth Freake with Baby Mary - Early American) on the verso + [181]-268 + V-VIII = publisher's ads, Octavo. First Edition.This issue also includes contributions by George Santayana, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, and others. Illustrations by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, and Peggy Bacon (including a drawing of J. Alfred Prufrock along with two other drawings). Early in his career, Eliot frequently published bits and pieces of his poems before collecting them together into their final, combined version. This was true of "Ash Wednesday" and also of "The Hollow Men." "The Hollow Men" made its first complete appearance on November 23, 1925 in his eighth book (Gallup A8) Poems: 1909-1925. There the poem consisted of five separate, numbered parts - four of which had appeared earlier in various publications. Part I was first published in the Winter 1924/1925 issue of Commerce in both French and English ("Poème" - Gallup C158). The English was dated "Nov. 1924". Part III made its first appearance in the November 1924 issue of Chapbook as Doris' Dream Songs which has three poems: "Eyes that last I saw in tears", "The wind sprang up at four o'clock", and "This is the dead land" (not noted in Gallup but cited in Wikipedia). This third poem became Part III of "The Hollow Men."Parts II & IV were first published in the January 1925 issue of his Criterion magazine under the title "Three Poems." These were "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams", "Eyes that I last saw in tears", and "The eyes are not here" (Gallup C160). The first poem became Part II of "The Hollow Men" and the third became Part IV.Parts I, II & IV appeared together in the March 1925 issue of The Dial (Gallup C162) where the poem was first entitled "The Hollow Men" but here broken into just three parts (I-III). When these were finally transformed into the full version of "The Hollow Men" as it appeared in Poems: 1909-1925 these three appeared as Parts I, II, and IV.Part V was composed as the coda for these four previously published parts and only appears in the final Poems: 1909-1925 issue. In the original publisher's salmon wraps printed with black text on the front and back covers (inside and out) and also on the spine. The spine is cracked a few spots but all the parts and pieces are still present. A fairly gorgeous copy of this scarce issue of these three Parts of one of Eliot's most famous poems: "The Hollow Men." ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Seller Inventory # 1245
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