TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC And Other Writings.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has several small chips and short closed tears and some toning and marks to the spine and panel edges. Not price-clipped (25s to the front flap).

A posthumous collection of T. S. Eliot's essays, published less than a year after the poet's death. Included are 'To Criticize the Critic'; 'From Poe to Valéry'; 'American Literature and the American Language'; 'The Aims of Education'; 'What Dante Means to Me'; 'The Literature of Politics'; 'The Classics and the Man of Letters'; 'Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry'; 'Reflections of 'Vers Libre''. Published 11 November 1965 in an edition of 6000 copies. (Gallup A76).