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The Waste Land T.S. Eliot
Modernist Literature
Poetry
USD$11,623

Description

First edition in book form, first printing, number 402 of 1,000 copies, an exceptional copy in the first issue binding. The poem originally appeared in the first issue of The Criterion, the quarterly review which Eliot edited, in October 1922; it was published in book form by Boni & Liveright two months later, on 15 December 1922. Gallup notes that "approximately the first 500 copies bound have the flexible cloth binding and [stamped limitation] figures 5 mm high in the colophon", as here. On page 41, line 339, the letter "a" has been dropped from the word "mountain" (Gallup's second state, no priority of issue). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom black cloth folding box. Cloth bright, faint superficial scratch to rear cover, a little browning to front free endpaper: a near-fine copy. Gallup A6a.

About The Waste Land

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.