The Ariel Poems: Illustrated poems for Christmas
by Eliot, T. S. (textual note, Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping). Boards & silver titling pristine, pages. Apparently unread.
- ISBN 10
- 0571316433
- ISBN 13
- 9780571316434
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 2014. 1st thus. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping). Boards & silver titling pristine, pages. Apparently unread.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A cherished part of his oeuvre, the 'Ariel Poems' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. ('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series, 'so I kept it for myself.') That pamphlet series inventively paired an unpublished poem by a leading writer of the day with new artwork from an eminent artist. Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon, Barnett Freedman and John Nash were among the contributors to the first set, which broadly carried a Christmas theme and which sold for one shilling. The publisher's hope was that the pamphlets might double-up as greeting cards, and Eliot himself sent them as festive gifts to the writers on Faber's poetry list.This handsome new publication brings together, for the first time in a single edition, the six poems that T. S. Eliot wrote for the series, and in so doing restores them to the company of the artworks that originally partnered them.
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- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Ariel Poems: Illustrated poems for Christmas
- Author
- Eliot, T. S. (textual note, Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping). Boards & silver titling pristine, pages. Apparently unread.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571316433
- ISBN 13
- 9780571316434
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 48
- Keywords
- poetry, anthology, TSEliot, Nobel, theology
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.25 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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