T.S. Eliot. Later printing. Dust Jacket: None. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1946. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. No writing or markings in the book, 86 pp.
First published in the UK in 1935 (3000 copies) followed by U.S. publication in the same year (1500 copies printed). There were also 750 copies printed and distributed for the play at Canterbury Cathedral in May 1935. Later published in 1946 (this edition) and again in 1952 in this country.
"Eliot's play, the story of Thomas a Becket, in which a man of God stands as a spiritual beacon against the darkness of a despotic temporal power, was actually banned in Romania under the Ceausescu régime."
