ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). Ash Wednesday. London and New York: 1930. 8° (198 x 146mm). Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, publishers' slipcase (slipcase with ownership stamp and inscription, partly broken).
FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, NO. 3 of 600 copies signed by Eliot, the present copy inscribed by him to Barbara Rothschild (1911-89), the daughter of Eliot's close friend Mary Hutchinson and wife of Victor Rothschild, scientist and book collector. Gallup A15a.
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). Ash Wednesday. London and New York: 1930. 8° (198 x 146mm). Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, publishers' slipcase (slipcase with ownership stamp and inscription, partly broken).
FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, NO. 3 of 600 copies signed by Eliot, the present copy inscribed by him to Barbara Rothschild (1911-89), the daughter of Eliot's close friend Mary Hutchinson and wife of Victor Rothschild, scientist and book collector. Gallup A15a.
