The Confidential Clerk (John Gielgud's copy) Pay pp [xviii] + 124

pp [xviii] + 124

Original pale blue boards

Loosely inserted in a single page ALS from a collector of flag books and some related press cuttings

A Fine copy with no faults

upon eating the lotos

The Confidential Clerk (John Gielgud's copy) Pay pp [xviii] + 124London: Faber, 1954. First Edition, first issue, with 'Ihad' instead of 'I had' to p. 7. 8vo. pp 135. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With the slightly chipped dust jacket, small scuff to head of spine, but a VG copy in the price clipped d j with some light edgewear, most noticeable at head of spine. John Gielgud's copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Gielgud's several recordings of Eliot's works over nearly half a century