Books

FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS, first printings, 'The Dry Salvages' with ownership inscription to half-title, a few spots to this and 'East Coker', the paperstock of last volume a little runkled, pp. 15; 15; 15; 16, 8vo, original stapled (including 'Little Gidding', sometimes sewn) wrappers of different colours, a little browned around the spines, a few faint spots to 'The Dry Salvages', borders of wrappers to 'East Coker' a little darkened with a small and very faint splashmark at head of rear, edges untrimmed and in the case of 'Little Gidding' largely uncut, very good. 'East Coker' had first appeared, in two editions, as a supplement to the New English Weekly in Easter of 1940; 'Burnt Norton' had been included in Eliot's Collected Poems from 1936; the latter two poems from the sequence make their first separate appearance here, having originally been printed in New English Weekly. (Gallup A36c; A37; A39; A42).

Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T.S. Eliot that were published individually over six years - Burnt Norton (1936), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941), and Little Gidding (1942). These poems are meditative reflections on the themes of time, perspective, humanity, and the divine.