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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First Edition, First Printing, Second State. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition, second state of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, in the publisher's second state dust jacket.. Octavo, [6], [9]-64pp. Publisher's flexible black cloth boards, title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Includes the publisher's glassine wrapper in fine condition. This copy is largely unopened. From a limited edition of 1000 copies, this being number 161, with stamp in 5mm font on colophon. Housed in custom black cloth clamshell, title on spine in gilt. Publisher's second state dust jacket, lacking the period after the text in the boxed announcement, salmon paper, $1.50 on spine, fine condition. This issue of Waste Land is the second state text, with "mount in" on page 41 and the "a" is dropped from water on page 22. (Gallup A6a) A beautiful example. First published in December of 1922, the first copies were issued with "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41, line…

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.