Ash-Wednesday.
"Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, pray for us now at the hour of our death": signed limited edition of T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday
Ash-Wednesday.
ELIOT, T.S.
$2,600.00
Item Number: 147843
New York: The Fountain Press Inc./London Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930.
Signed limited edition of T. S. Eliot’s classic “conversion poem.” Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. One of six hundred numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is marked “out of series.” In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A very sharp example.
Published in 1930, Eliot's Ash Wednesday presents the struggle and difficulty of embracing religious belief and the possibility of personal salvation in the midst of angst, spiritual exhaustion and uncertainty.
