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Volume LXXIII, Number 5. Original printed salmon wraps. Contains the first printed appearance in the United States of THE WASTE LAND, and only its second appearance overall, having appeared the previous month in England in the CRITERION Magazine. Also includes contributions by Yeats, Picasso, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Malcolm Cowley, Bertrand Russell, and others. Uncommon in original wraps, unrestored. Offsetting to the first page of the poem from the St. Severin frontispiece by Robert Delaunay, as usual; some loss of paper on the spine and a bit of chipping to the outside front wrap. Very Good.

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.