ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965). [Four Quartets], London, Faber and Faber, 1940-42, 4 pamphlets, 8vo, original printed coloured wrappers. FIRST FABER EDITIONS. (4)

ELIOT, T. S. (1888-1965).  [Four Quartets], comprising:  East Coker. London: Faber and Faber, 1940. 8vo (220 x 145mm). 15-pages. Original yellow printed wrappers, stapled, FIRST FABER EDITION;  Burnt Norton. London: Faber and Faber, 1941. 8vo. 15-pages. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled, the front free endpaper SIGNED "Clarissa S. Churchill", FIRST FABER AND FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED EDITION;  The Dry Salvages. London: Faber and Faber, 1941. 8vo. 15-pages. Original pale blue printed wrappers, stapled (some fading at edges), FIRST FABER EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, i.e. stitched rather than stapled;  Little Gidding. London: Faber and Faber, 1942. 8vo. 16-pages. Original mauve printed wrappers, stitched (some fading at edges), FIRST FABER EDITION. A VERY GOOD SET. Provenance: Anthony Eden (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted in East Coker). "Four Quartets, a poem in four parts by T. S. Eliot, published as a whole in 1943. The first part, 'Burnt Norton', was the final poem in Collected Poems 1909-35 (1936); 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages', and 'Little Gidding' first appeared in New English Weekly in 1940, 1941, and 1942 respectively, and were then published separately in pamphlet form by Faber and Faber" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Drabble, 1985), although this set of the four pamphlets are dated 1940/1941/1941/1942 respectively. Gallup A36C, A37, A39, A42. (4)