Home / Browse / Autographs & Signed Books / The Holy Bible and Book of Common Prayer.
ELIOT, T. S.
The Holy Bible and Book of Common Prayer.
Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, [c.1938]
Stock code: 50443
Price: £7,425 Currency Conversion
Presented by T. S. Eliot to his godson Tom Faber (son of Geoffrey Faber) at the age of 11, each book with the inscription, "Thomas Erle Faber from his godfather Thomas Stearns Eliot 1938." to the front endpaper. T. S. Eliot came to the attention of Geoffrey Faber with the publication of The Wast Land, and joined the firm of Faber & Faber in 1925 as editor of The Quarterly Review. From that point on Faber published all of Eliot's work in the UK, but Eliot's position at Faber meant that they became the most significant publishers of poetry of the twentieth century. It also quickly lead to Eliot and Faber becoming close friends. When Faber's son, Tom was born Eliot was chosen as Godfather. The pair also formed a close bond, Eliot's letters to Tom containing the humourous childish rhymes and illustrations that were to become Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was dedicated to Tom. "Tom always said that he never thought of T. S. Eliot as a poet or a scholar," said Faber's widow, Elizabeth. "He always thought of him as Uncle Tom." Dr Tom Faber became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Physics. He died in 2005.
2 volumes. Publisher's black morocco. Both volumes somewhat rubbed but in very good condition.
