Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 T.S. Eliot 1997 HB/DJ FINE/FINE

Description: Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 By T.S. Eliot Harcourt Brace & Company New York 1997 Edited by Christopher Ricks. Dust jacket adds: featuring previously unpublished works On the front flyleaf appears the title "Inventions of the March Hare," in black ink, crossed through by T.S. Eliot, which is taken from the blank flyleat at the front of his Notebook, here reduced 50 percent. xlii, 428 p.: 2 full-page facsimilies; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Black cloth spine with orange-stamped spine title, brown paper over boards. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket, featuring on the front section a photograph of T.S. Eliot in 1910, courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, and on the back section, a facsimile reproduction of a poem from T.S. Eliot's Notebook, courtesy of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Includes Appendixes (4), Index to the Editorial Material, and Index of Titles and First Lines. First American Edition "A few months before The Waste Land was published in 1922, T. S. Eliot gave the manuscript to his benefactor in New York, John Quinn. At the same time, he sold to Quinn a notebook containing about fifty poems that he had written during his twenties. It was not until 1968, three years after the poet's death, that the double cache was unveiled within the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The early poems, from the notebook and the accompanying leaves, are now at last published, all but a few of them for the first time. Of great interest, both technical and human, they reveal the young Eliot in the process of creating himself and his art: ruminating on the blind alleys and vacant lots of the city, exploring the perplexities of the modern age (doubt, ennui, indifference, dismay, affectation), and experimenting with a variety of poetic forms (urban pastoral, lyric, satire, the prose poem). Complementing the new poems, which include several bawdy verses, are 'richly informative drafts' (The Observer, London) of many of Eliot's best-known poems, among them 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (with a previously unpublished fragment), 'Portrait of a Lady' (signally and subtly different from the published text), many versions of 'Whispers of Immortality,' and 'Ode' (not reprinted since 1920)" [from the dust jacket] ISBN: 0151002746 Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket is in Fine/As New Condition. Copyright 2019 All text in this auction description is the sole property of Classic Books and Ephemera and may not be copied without permission from Classic Books and Ephemera. We email all winning bidders within 24 hours of the end of auction. Occasionally a server will block emails with unfamiliar addresses, which has prevented us from notifying a few winning bidders. If you do not hear from us, please email us for payment details. SHIPPING and HANDLING: The winning bidder receives free media mail in the U.S. We ship all books in boxes, well protected, within 24 hours of the order (Monday - Saturday), always with tracking. We ship pamphlets, documents, broadsides, and booklets in rigid mailers, bagged and boarded, with added stiffener for protection, always with tracking We have been selling books and ephemera for about 17 years to satisfied customers on various venues, so buy with confidence. For international shipping costs see Ebay's Shipping and Handling section below (click on the country and then click Update for cost to a specific country). For expedited domestic or international shipping prices, please contact us. WINNERS AND BUYERS OF MULTIPLE ITEMS RECEIVE FREE SHIPPING IN THE U.S., FIRST CLASS UP TO 16 OUNCES, MEDIA MAIL OVER 16 OUNCES. Payment Methods: Ebay has recently decreed that sellers on the site can only accept electronic payments through Paypal; no other form of payment is permitted except upon request. Before paying for multiple items, please wait for our email notification of your winning bids, so we can provide a combined shipping total. Pa. residents: you must add 6% sales tax to the total (including shipping and handling), unless you have a resale number. This is Pa. state law. Guarantee: We guarantee that the book is as described or we will return the buyer's money, if we are notified by email within 24 hours of receipt of the book. ALSO SEE ON EBAY OUR FINE SELECTION OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA IN OUR STORE, CLASSIC BOOKS AND EPHEMERA; CLICK ON THIS LINK: We use the condition terms established by AB Bookman's Weekly and now slightly refined by IOBA: As New/Fine, Near Fine(minor defects), Very Good (small signs of wear), Good (average used book), Fair (complete text, but may lack endpapers, half-title), Poor (complete text but soiled, loose hinges, etc.) For an explanation of terms commonly used in book descriptions, contact us.

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