one of 50 copies - signed by T.S. Eliot
ELIOT T.S. (introduction); BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
The Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood.
London, The Blackmore Press, 1930.
Isherwood's commission to translate the work came via W.H. Auden, who had been employed as a private tutor for the son of Flora Solomon, the owner of the short-lived Blackamore Press. Auden would later provide the introduction for the 1947 edition.
First English edition, number 42 of 50 copies, specially bound & signed by T.S. Eliot, from a total edition of 400; 8vo; frontispiece, 7 lithographic illustrations reproducing Baudelaire's drawings by D. Jacomet, bookplate to front pastedown, light spotting and offsetting early and late; original cream silk, titles to spine gilt, Baudelaire's signature to upper cover gilt, bevelled edges, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; a very good copy in the defective original card slipcase, lacking backstrip.
Gallup B14b.
Stock code 124439
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The Intimate Journals.
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Orlando: A Biography.
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Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters.
1956.
A handsome first edition of Virginia Woolf anf Lytton Strachey Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.
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Two Uncollected Poems.
1980.
A limited edition copy of The Uncollected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
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