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THE WASTE LAND
by Eliot, T. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First Edition, Second State, #494/1000. Hardcover. Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good Condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine salmon with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. With scarce dust jacket, lacking most of the lower half of spine, from just above the price through half of the words 'Boni and.' Old tape reinforcement to interior of spine, and one additional piece of tape used to repair front cover. Small closed tear along upper rear hinge. Covers and spine sun-faded, with the flaps still showing bright salmon. Lower third of front hinge splitting. In flexible black cloth boards with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Spine with three small fraying tears along the lower third. Ink name to the front free endpaper.
First Edition, Second State, #494/1000, with line 339 on page 41 dropping the 'a' in 'mountain,' One of the first approximately 500 copies with the flexible cloth binding and the numbering 5mm. high on the colophon. This copy also with the 'a' dropped from 'water' on page 22, although Gallup cites it as insignificant for determining priority. Dust jacket lacking the period at the end of the boxed announcement.
NF Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. One of the most important poems of the 20th century, The Waste Land features oft quoted lines such as "April is the cruelest month" and "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Gallup A6a, T. S. Eliot: a bibliography. 1368626. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
First Edition, Second State, #494/1000, with line 339 on page 41 dropping the 'a' in 'mountain,' One of the first approximately 500 copies with the flexible cloth binding and the numbering 5mm. high on the colophon. This copy also with the 'a' dropped from 'water' on page 22, although Gallup cites it as insignificant for determining priority. Dust jacket lacking the period at the end of the boxed announcement.
NF Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. One of the most important poems of the 20th century, The Waste Land features oft quoted lines such as "April is the cruelest month" and "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Gallup A6a, T. S. Eliot: a bibliography. 1368626. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot is one of the most famous poems of the 20th century and is 434 lines long, divided into 5 sections: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What the Thunder Said. Considered obscure and often abstract, the poem interweaves a number of legends and mythologies of both eastern and western influence in a variety of voices. Originally published in the 1922 issue of The Criterion (a U.K. magazine which was founded and edited by Eliot), it later appeared the subsequent month in the Dial magazine as its first U.S. appearance. The Wasteland first appeared in book form in 1922, published by Boni and Liveright in New York in an edition of 1000 copies. The first 500 copies were bound in a flexible black cloth, while the remaining copies were bound in a more traditional cloth hardcover. Both were issued in beige printed dust jackets. The first state is noted by the appearance of a dropped letter "a" on page 41 in the word mountain; the second issue has the word misprinted as "mount in." In nice condition, the first issue might be had in a jacket for $25,000 and up. The first U.K. book edition was published the following year in the U.K by Hogarth Press in an edition of 450 copies . Also of note is the second NY edition on 1923, also published by Boni and Liveright and highly collectible. - -
Reviews
On Dec 13 2016, a reader said:
This was the "let there be light" moment for 20th Century poetry. The intellectual chiropractic it worked on literature obliterated that bequeathed to us thereafter. Poetry became the moral spotlight. And one man made it happen.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1368626
- Title
- THE WASTE LAND
- Author
- Eliot, T. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second State, #494/1000
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Poetry, British Literature,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Second State
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- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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