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All first editions-first impressions. East Coker, Sept 1940, Clear protective plastic sleeve fitted to light brown card wrap which is tanned and has wear to centrefold and small chips. Stapled. Pages are age tanned with slight foxing. Previous owner's signature on fep dated Oct 1940. Burnt Norton, Feb.1941 in green card, wear to all edges. Centre fold in tanned and worn.Stapled. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing. Dry Salvages,Sept 1941 in faded pale blue. Sunning to edges and centre fold with small chips. Internal rusting to staples. Very slight foxing. Little Gidding, 1942 in faded mauve card, front and back both creased. Centre fold is faded and sewn rather than stapled. Pages are age tanned but clean. 8vo. Overall a good and rare first edition set.

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.