Journey of the Magi; Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1927. Edward McKnight Kauffer. First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched yellow paper wrapper printed in black on pages i (color frontispiece) and iv (series title and no.), folded over heavy blanks; back wrapper neatly separated at the seam, but wrapper clean and crisp.
No. 8 of the Ariel Poems
[Gallup A9a].
This is one of the early "Ariel Poems" series published by Faber & Gwyer (later ones by Faber & Faber) which included each one poem by T. S. Eliot accompanied by a color illustration done by one of several artists who contributed to the series. Each was printed in a run of 3000 to 5000 copies.
From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 – 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965.
Condition: Very Good.
Item number: 1122
Price: $480.00
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