SELECTED ESSAYS: 1917-1932.

First edition, first printing. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, except for some occasional light marginal spots, clean. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed, light spotting to the former. Previous owner's name neatly in ink to the front free endpaper. A very well preserved copy.

The 'Selected Essays' gathers Eliot's own choice of reviews and essays written between 1917 and 1932. In a preface added for the third edition, he described the selection as "a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions." The volume collects many of the author's finest and best-known essays, including those on Dante, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets and dramatists, Baudelaire, Wilkie Collins and Dickens (among much else) and remains in print to this day. Published 15 September 1932, 3,000 copies were printed. (Gallup A21a.).