Eliot (T.S.) The Classics and the Man of Letters, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Michael Roberts dated "14.viii.42", the day after publication on half-title, indistinct "t" on title line 6, original wrappers, light fading, extremities a little creased, light marking and soiling to covers, [Gallup A40], 8vo, 1942.
⁂ Rare signed.
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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