Ash-Wednesday.

ELIOT, T. S.

Item Number: 116397

New York: The Fountain Press Inc./London Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930.

First edition and signed limited edition of T. S. Eliot’s “conversion poem”. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. One of six hundred numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 323. Near fine in the rare original slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box signed in gilt by Asprey.

Published in 1930, Eliot's Ash Wednesday presents the struggle and difficulty of embracing religious belief and the possibility of personal salvation in the midst of angst, spiritual exhaustion and uncertainty.