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Franklin Library leather edition of T.S. Eliot's "Collected Poems, 1909-1962," a Limited edition, Frontispiece Portrait of Eliot by Bernard Fuchs, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1976. Bound in camel tan leather, the book has brown French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for minor rubs on spine and small scratch on back board. Thomas Stearns Eliot, who lived from 1888 – 1965, better known by his pen name T. S. Eliot , was an American-born British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth century's major poets. He moved to England in 1914 at age 25, settling, working and marrying there. He was eventually naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39, renouncing his American citizenship. Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including "The Waste Land" (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930) and "Four Quartets" (1945). He was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." 212 pages. I offer Combined shipping.