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The Waste Land
by Eliot, T.S
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Black cloth. Slight wear to head and tail of spine else a good plus copy
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with water lacking its a on page 22, and mountains spelled correctly on page 41. Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Slight wear to head and tail of spine else a good plus copy. First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with water lacking its a on page 22, and mountains spelled correctly on page 41. Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. The Waste Land was published in periodical form (without the Notes) in the autumn of 1922, in the inaugural issue of T.S. Eliot's journal The Criterion, and in The Dial), and then in book form on 15 December.
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 mind in an essay entitled 'Ulysses, Order and Myth'."
A LANDMARK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE. Gallup A6; Connolly The Modern Movement 30b; Hayward English Poetry 332
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 mind in an essay entitled 'Ulysses, Order and Myth'."
A LANDMARK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE. Gallup A6; Connolly The Modern Movement 30b; Hayward English Poetry 332
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. - -
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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
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 329601
- Title
- The Waste Land
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Black cloth. Slight wear to head and tail of spine else a good plus copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with wate
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Literature
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- Literature;
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