ELIOT, T.S. Little Gidding. London; Faber And Faber. 1942.

8vo.; original mauve card wrappers, stapled; pp. [vi], 7-16; a lovely copy with only slight fading to spine, internally fine, without inscription.

First edition, second issue, stapled rather than sewn.  

This is the fourth and final episode of Eliot’s modernist masterpiece “Four Quartets”. Eliot wrote it during the London Blitz. Its context of fire and destruction is refined as “Pentecostal fire” leading to the purification of the spirit.