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ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. 1950. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT TO
ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. 1950. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT TO
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ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Cocktail Party. London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1950.

8vo. Original cloth (rubbing, spotting to endpapers). Provenance: Christopher Hugh Sykes (1907-1986), English writer (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT TO CHRISTOPHER SYKES, "With the author's humble compliments. 27.II.50." The Cocktail Party was initially published on 9 March, making this a pre-publication copy of Eliot's most famous play. One of a few hundred copies with misprinted "here" for "her" on p. 39. Gallup A55a.
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ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. 1950. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT TO

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