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The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0156948702
- ISBN 13
- 9780156948708
- Seller
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Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Book is in Very Good- condition, with some edgewear to cover, some fading at top spine corner, small soil mark at bottom of front cover. Prior owner name written in blue ink in front endpaper. Pages clean and tight.
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
- Givens Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20094
- Title
- The Waste Land
- Author
- T. S. Eliot
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156948702
- ISBN 13
- 9780156948708
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974-03-20
- Keywords
- poetry, poem, criticism, interpretation, literary criticism, t s eliot, the waste land, facsimile, transcript, drafts, annotations, ezra pound
- Bookseller catalogs
- Criticism & Interpretation; Poetry/Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
Givens Books
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About the Seller
Givens Books
Biblio member since 2006
Lynchburg, Virginia
About Givens Books
Givens Books & Little Dickens is a family business that has been selling new, used, and rare books in Lynchburg, Virginia since 1976, and educational toys and teacher supplies since 1989. Our used book department strives to provide quality books on a wide variety of subjects. We also specialize in our local Lynchburg and Virginia history.
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