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San Francisco, CA: Arion Press, 2007. First edition thus. Hardcover. One of only 300 copies. The 79th book from the Arion Press, designed by Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of several others. Features the text of Eliot's poem along with an essay by Helen Vendler on the poem and Marco Livingstone's essay on the R.B. Kitaj's painting "If Not." Includes the entire illustration of Kitaj's painting as well as detals. A fine copy in cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. An attractive production.

The Waste Land is a 434-line modernist poem by T.S. Eliot, first published in 1922. It is one of the most important poems of the 20th century.