Eliot (T.S.) Little Gidding, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Michael and Janet Roberts dated in the month of publication on upper cover, very light creasing to a few ff., original wrappers, re-stitched, a few marks to upper cover, [Gallup A42], 8vo, 1942.
⁂ The last of Eliot's Four Quartets, rare inscribed.
Provenance:
Janet Adam Smith (1905-99) Scottish writer, literary editor and journalist. From 1930 to 1935 she was assistant editor at The Listener, where she did much to promote the work of new poets, in particular W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Herbert Read and Louis MacNeice. In 1936 she succeeded Michael Roberts as chief reviewer in Eliot’s quarterly The Criterion. She married Michael Roberts in 1935.
Michael Roberts (1902-48) English poet, writer, mathematician, critic and broadcaster. He taught at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and while there began publishing both his own poetry as well as editing anthologies, the most celebrated of which was the Faber Book of Modern Verse.
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