Little Gidding

London: Faber and Faber, 1942.

First Edition, first printing, with the original printed wrappers, sewn spine, wrappers stained. 16 pages. The fourth of final poem in Eliot's 'Four Quartets' collection, first published in September 1942 after being delayed for over a year because of the air raids on Great Britain and Eliot's failing health. The title refers to a the small village in Cambridgeshire, where Nicholas Ferrer established an Anglican community in 1626, and from which Eliot drew many historical elements and symbols into his long poem.