Description
Signed first American edition of The Use of Poetry and The Use of Criticism by T.S. Eliot, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University, 1932-1933.
Octavo, viii, [2], 149pp. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings noted. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cloth spine, solid text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, faint toning to spine, closed tear along rear hinge, a delicate copy. (Gallup A24b)
Signed on the title page by T.S. Eliot, with a strike through his printed name.
The first English and American editions of The Use of Poetry and The Use of Criticism were published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain. The first American printing was limited to 1500 copies, followed by a second edition in 1964.
