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Sweeney Agonistes

Sweeney Agonistes

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T.S. Eliot. First U.K. edition. Dust jacket and hardcover are both in Very Good condition. An unclipped price on jacket but looks like some edges are clipped? Jacket has a tear on back and some chipping on spine and as well as foxing, the integrity is there thiugh. London: Ferber and Ferber, 1932. No writing or markings in the book, 31 pp. in original light blue cloth with red lettering on spine. 

T.S. Eliot's unfinished modernist drama, its two parts 'Fragment of a Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' first appeared in the Criterion Magazine during the 1920's. The play features Eliot's recurring character Sweeney, who emerges in other works such as the poem Sweeney Among the Nightingales.

There is no U.S. edition, only this U.K. edition was first published in 1932.

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