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xvi, 592, xvii-xxxii pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's lettered salmon wrappers. The first US appearance of The Waste Land; first impression. One of 500 copies. There is very slight use to the wrappers, including a few tiny (1/8") chips at the fore-edge. Contents fine. This issue of The Dial also contains contributions by Pablo Picasso, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Cowley and others.

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.