The Rock by Eliot T S (49 results)

Condition: Fair. 1934. 2nd Impression. 86 pages. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. 13X19 CM. 86 PÁGINAS. MUY BUEN ESTADO.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dw. 3rd Impression. Grey paper covered boards lettered in blue on spine. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. All Images Are Provided By Website, Please Contact Us For Photos If Desired Book Is In Good Condition For Age Spine Worn At Top And Tail, Board Corners Bumped, Spine Discoloured No Jacket Included Binding Tight And Secure Pages Clean And Bright Throughout Previous Owner Has Left An Ink Inscription And Embossed Stamp In The Front Of The Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition. Slightly musty. Jacket is rubbed, soiled, edge worn and toned around edges. Chips to head of spine and to head and foot of all flap folds. Boards lightly soiled. Rectangular stain to head of front free end-paper at the gutter, the word "catalogued" rubber stamped to foot of rear paste-down. Binding firm, unmarked copy. Gallup A26b.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original brown wrappers, titles to front and spine in black, 86pp, repair tape to spine and bottom of hinge by title page, protective plastic cover, covers are attached but a little fragile, a few black ink lines in the margins, light foxing to first few pages, otherwise a good ++ copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. British soft cover edition, first printing, 1934. No jacket as issued. One of one thousand copies of this, the soft cover, first printing. A Pageant play. Grey wraps are very good with a little pushing/creasing to corners, a little rubbing/creasing to spine, a few small marks, patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small crease and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. End-papers/first and last few pages have the odd small mark/browning/(quite) heavy foxing. Odd small mark/spots of foxing/small scratch to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional small mark/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

8vo 86pp. original boards in duswrapper, slightly worn and yellowed at back, with some pencil annotations at back. Inclues ink inscription on fly-page, in addition to a later name inscription, dated 1965, overleaf. A very good copy. 3rd impression, same year as 1st.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 86 pages, 8vo. First Impression, published May 1934. Grey cloth boards with dark blue lettering along spine. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers, jacket price is clipped, light tanning. DJ in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good conditon.

Privattryk, 1962. 41 sider. Uopskåret eksemplar. Lette brugsspor. * I oversættelse af N.J.Rald og H.F. Rasmussen.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tan cloth with spine label. Small octavo. 86pp. Gray printed dust jacket (not clipped). First American edition (stated). A pageant play, first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre on May 28, 1934, about the efforts of a group of bricklayers engaged in building a church. One of 1500 copies printed of the American edition. GALLUP A26b. A very good copy with some light soiling to the cloth. The text is very good with some light foxing to the title page. The jacket is good with some soiling and edgewear, some fading to the spine and some chipping to the spine tips.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp 86. Wraps. Original publisher's grey covers, lettered black. Written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 28 May - 9 June 1934, on behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. 1000 copies were issued in the printed grey wraps (similarly with the hardback). Very faint wrinkling at spine otherwise very good.

Privattryk, 1962. 41 sider. Uopskåret eksemplar. Omslaget let gulnet. Ellers i fin stand. * I oversættelse af N.J.Rald og H.F. Rasmussen.

86 pp. Original printed wrappers. First Edition. - Some browning to spine, some foxing to endpapers. Gewicht (Gramm): 142.

1st edition, 2nd printing. Very good copy in the original title-blocked paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 86 pages; 19 cm. Notes: A pageant play written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre on behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. Subjects: Drama; Screenplays; Theatre; American writers, 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In grey jacket over tan cloth, 8vo, 86pp. (fading and toning to jacket extremities, sm. nick to jacket at upper tip, name and notes to endpapers, sm. stain to upper board).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Good; firm binding; contents good; slight handling wear; a little light foxing; no dust jacket. Soft Cover Faber 1934 Plays.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 8vo. 86 pp, 2nd impression June 1934, (First - May), pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper, some browning and foxing on foredges and endpapers, some light browning and sporadic foxing to pages, Shakespeare and Company booksellers label to rear pastedown, good in original grey paper covered boards, spine and extremities browned, some wear and minor markings, good - please see photos supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 86. Wraps. Original publisher's grey covers, lettered black. Written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 28 May - 9 June 1934, on behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. 1000 copies were issued in the printed grey wraps (similarly with the hardback). Very faint wrinkling at spine otherwise very good+ or better. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. pp 86 very faint foxing plain grey paper on boards blue title on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 86. Original publishers grey covers, lettered royal blue. Written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 28 May - 9 June 1934, on behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. Neat name on front endpaper, with slight tanning at lower spine, otherwise very good in clean, used, minus very good dust jacket, with thumbnail sized chip at foot of spine.

1st edition, 2nd printing. Very good copy in the original title-blocked paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 86 pages; 19 cm. Notes: A pageant play written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre on behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. Subjects: Drama; Screenplays; Theatre; American writers, 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding. Hardback rebound by library. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A first edition, second impression of T. S. Eliot's pageant play, written in collaboration with director E. Martin Browne and R. Webb-Odell. The first edition, second impression of this work in the original boards, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A book of words for The Rock, a pageant play written for a performance on behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. It was performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London from May to June 1934. The theatre director E. Martin Browne invented the scenario, and T. S. Eliot wrote the words. Dr Martin Shaw composed the music. In the original boards, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, boards are smart though a little age toned, more so to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Dust wrapper is smart, with a touch of sunning to the spine and rear of the wrap. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** Dust Jacket has some shelf wear including a small tear - No marks on text - My shelf location - 31-b-41*.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.86; [2]. Publisher's plain wraps with grey integral dust-jacket printed in black to spine and upper, printed price of 1s. net to front flap. Book review by L. A. G. Strong stapled to flyleaf, picture clipped from a newspaper showing players from the Sadler's Wells performance loosely inserted. Internally clean edges toned and marked. Wraps marked with some rubbing to spine and a few watermarks. Very good.

First edition. "Written for Performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May - 9 June 1934 on Behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London." Softcover issue (also issued in hardback). 12mo gray, printed paperwraps with flaps. Cover edges tanned, foxing to fore edges and blanks, some rubbing and light creasing to spine; altogether about very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third impression, September 1934 (first published May 1934). Grey paper-covered boards with title in blue on spine. Condition: Good, covers are generally lightly shelfworn. A couple of pages have light foxing. Front endpaper has some light browning to inner edge of the front endpaper. Inscribed on front endpaper "Barbara from Joan 7.X.36". Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good with general light shelfwear and light sunning to rear of jacket. Half-inch repaired vertical tear to centre of lower front cover of jacket. Front inner flap of jacket has a fold to the outer edge. Not price-clipped. 86pp. Eliot's writing for the theatre began with the satirical 'Sweeney Agonistes' fragments. Eliot wrote this play, "The Rock" ,the London churches' pageant play' in 1934, and the choruses are preserved in Collected Poems. Putting it into chronological context, the following year, 1935, he was commissioned by the Canterbury Festival to write "Murder in the Cathedral", about the martyrdom of St Thomas à Becket.

12mo, original printed wrappers. Covers darkened along and margins of covers, but very good copy. Covers darkened along and margins of covers, but very good copy First edition. One of 1000 copies bound in wrappers out of a total edition of 2000 copies printed. Gallup A26a.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies in wraps. 86 pp. In very good condition, with some minor marks to front and slight toning to edges of wraps, top corner slighy bumped. Similar minor marks to first page but otherwise all clean and neat internally. Bound in 8's. A nice copy. 16mo.