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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First edition, second issue, no. 886 of 1000 copies, this copy with number 2 mm in height, a dropped in line 339 (p. 441). 64 pp. [First leaf is a blank]. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth over stiff boards titled in gilt. Very good plus (slight rubbing, extremities bumped). First edition, second issue, no. 886 of 1000 copies, this copy with number 2 mm in height, a dropped in line 339 (p. 441). 64 pp. [First leaf is a blank]. 1 vols. 8vo. 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 was to establish Eliot and American literature among the vanguard of modern cultural activity. "It did not hurt that 1922 also saw the long-heralded publication of Joyce's Ulysses, or that in 1923 Eliot linked himself and Joyce with Einstein in the public…

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.