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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with water lacking its a on page 22, and mountains spelled correctly on page 41. Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth over flexible boards. Slight wear to head and tail of spine else a good plus copy. First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with water lacking its a on page 22, and mountains spelled correctly on page 41. Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. The Waste Land was published in periodical form (without the Notes) in the autumn of 1922, in the inaugural issue of T.S. Eliot’s journal The Criterion, and in The Dial), and then in book form on 15 December. T.S. Eliot, whose literary reputation was established with his first book in 1917, was awarded the annual literary prize of The Dial magazine for The Waste Land in 1922 by publisher Scofield Thayer, a friend and classmate from Milton Academy and Harvard. Thayer's aim…

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.