T. S. Eliot — The Confidential Clerk

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A stated first American Edition copy of this comic verse play by the renowned essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic T. S. Eliot. 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. The plot follows wealthy entrepreneur Sir Claude Mulhammer's attempts to smuggle his illegitimate son Colby into the household by employing him as his confidential clerk, and the subsequent drama of mistaken identity and confusion that swiftly ensues. Complete with the original price-clipped dustwrapper. With a list of the cast of the first production (at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953) to the rear of the text. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally excellent, with minor shelfwear to extremities and slight bumping and chipping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper slightly bumped to extremities and head and tail of spine. Fading to spine, and the odd marking to wrap. Closed tear and slight chip to lower extremity of rear of wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.