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Murder in the Cathedral (with SIGNED Letter)
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Nearly fine with good unclipped d/j (vg), fading on ffep, tight binding and crisp pages. Stapled to ffep, genuine, signed letter
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1947. 1st. h/b. Nearly fine with good unclipped d/j (vg), fading on ffep, tight binding and crisp pages. Stapled to ffep, genuine, signed letter by Eliot to Evan Glyn Lewis (a Welsh educator and linguist) on 3rd Nov 1934 (just a few months before publication of Murder in the Cathedral) in his capacity as editor of The Criterion.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
Synopsis
T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132911
- Title
- Murder in the Cathedral (with SIGNED Letter)
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly fine with good unclipped d/j (vg), fading on ffep, tight binding and crisp pages. Stapled to ffep, genuine, signed letter
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 88
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Drama, Nobel, TSEliot
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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