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First edition, second impression (technically not a second edition as stated on the colophon page) of the T.S. Eliot masterpiece The Waste Land, regarded as one of the most influential literary works of the twentieth century. Published in 1922 by Boni & Liveright and numbered 164/1000. Publisher s cloth boards with gilt lettering and deckled edges. Slim 8vo, 64 pages. With a sticker from the famed New York small bookstore and literary salon The Sunwise Turn, founded in 1916 by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowby-Clarke and operated until 1927, affixed to the rear pastedown a nice association. Light bumping and chipping to extremities. Some rubbing to boards. Minor foxing to endpapers.

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.