AT.S. Eliot. First American edition, second printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $2.00 on inside flap (first edition was priced lower at $1.25). Jacket cover has some foxing. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. Other than former owner's signature on flyleaf, no writing or markings in the book, 86 pp.
There is a short introductory note by Eliot mentioning that the play has been changed since the first (English) edition, dated 1936.
First complete edition of Eliot's best and most successful play. Widely regarded as Eliot's best play and certainly his most successful. Murder in the Cathedral is his dramatization of the 12th-century murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170.
