The Confidential Clerk

T.S. Eliot. Stated first American edition, first printing. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Both unclipped dust jacket, in a mylar wrapper, and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found in the book, 159 pp. 

This comic verse play by the renowned essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic T. S. Eliot. First produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953, 'The Confidential Clerk' is a comic play with a plot derived from Greek drama, produced by Henry Sherek and directed by E. Martin Browne. The plot follows wealthy entrepreneur Sir Claude Mulhammer's attempts to smuggle his illegitimate son Colby into the household by employing him as his confidential clerk, and the subsequent drama of mistaken identity and confusion that swiftly ensues.