Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2300Location: BostonDate / Time: October 30, 2005 11:00AM
Description:
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965),Signed copy,The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1954], first edition, inscribed on title page and dated 1964, boards, (lacking wraps); together with Fisher, A Fair World for All.
Provenance: Ex-collection Eleanor Roosevelt, Hammer Galleries auction, 1964, lots 1601 and 1684 respectively, each with Eleanor Roosevelt bookplate and later notation from her son John A. Roosevelt, dated 1965.
Estimate $200-400