A catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts to be sold at private auction on November 7, 1959 for the benefit of The Modern Poetry Association following a dinner in honor of T.S. Eliot
Chicago: The Modern Poetry Association, 1959.
Price: $150.00
Softcover. Quarto. Stapled self-wrappers. [12]pp. Very slightly soiled, still fine. Among the items are manuscripts of Eliot's sequence of poems "Landscapes" and the two empty bottles of Chateau Lafite 1953 served to Eliot and his wife, signed by him on the labels!
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T.S. Eliot
birth name: Thomas Stearns Eliot
born: 9/26/1888
died: 1/4/1965
nationality: USA/Great Britain
Biography
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic, a leader of the modernist movement in poetry. In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore