T.S. Eliot. First American edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $3.00 on inside flap. Jacket in a mylar protective wrapper. Hardcover: Near Fine. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. No writing or markings in this solid edition, 159 pp.
The author was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1948), six years prior to this particular play getting published.
The work is a comic verse play by the renowned essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. 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.
Eliot's play opened with its first production at the Edinburgh Festival, August 25 - September 5, 1953.
