103 “The River Is A Strong Brown God— Sullen, Untamed And Intractable…” 154 ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London, 1960. Tall quarto, original cream and marbled paper boards, slipcase. $6200 Signed limited edition of this highspot of 20th-century poetry, one of 290 copies signed by Eliot, beautifully printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona. First published in four separate parts during World War II, The Four Quartets “were the first of Eliot’s poems to reach a wide public (they were seen as a unifying force in the war years), and they succeeded in communicating in modern idiom the fundamentals of Christian faith and experience” (Drabble, 364). Fine. “And What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round At Last, Slouches Towards Bethlehem To Be Born?” 155 YEATS, William Butler. Later Poems. New York, 1924. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $3800 First American edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Yeats. Contains all of Yeats’ non-dramatic poems written between 1899 and 1921. First published in London in 1922. Without scarce original slipcase. Near-fine. “A Soul Admitted To Itself: Finite Infinity” 156 DICKINSON, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. Boston, 1930. Octavo, three-quarter green morocco gilt and marbled boards. $1500 “Centenary Edition” of Dickinson’s poems, published one hundred years after her birth, features a frontispiece portrait of the young poet, beautifully bound in three-quarter green morocco. This handsome collection of Dickinson’s poetry, edited by her niece, contains sections that highlight themes in her poetry such as “Life,” “Nature” and “Love.” With frontispiece portrait of a young Dickinson, two facsimile pages. About-fine. Signed By Robert Frost 157 FROST, Robert. The Complete Poems. New York, 1950. Two volumes. Tall octavo, original dark blue cloth, slipcase. $3600 Signed limited edition, one of 1500 copies signed by Frost, additionally signed by famed typographer Bruce Rogers and New England illustrator Thomas W. Nason. “The most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th century… [In 1957] T.S. Eliot toasted Frost as ‘perhaps the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living,’ whose ‘kind of local feeling in poetry… can go without universality: the relation of Dante to Florence… of Robert Frost to New England’” (ANB). Without scarce and fragile original glassine dust jackets. A fine pair in a mildly worn slipcase.
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