T. S. Eliot — The Cocktail Party

London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of T. S. Eliot's renowned comedy, featuring a page of sheet music towards the rear. The first edition, first state of T. S. Eliot's verse comedy, with the misprint of 'here' instead of 'her' on p. 29.The most popular of Eliot's plays during his lifetime, 'The Cocktail Party' ponders the marital tensions of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne, unpon the interventions of the 'unidentified guest' - a character most immortalised in performance by Alec Guinness, who took on the role for productions in 1949 at its debut, then again in 1968.Features an original page of sheet music printed to the appendix.Lacks dust wrapper. Bound in original green cloth. Lacks dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to front board extremities. Fading to spine. Mild bumping to extremities. Very mild spotting to endpapers. 'The Times Library' stamp to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Slight spotting and the odd handling mark to text block edges. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .