Books and Manuscripts

Eliot, T.S.
The Waste Land
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, #409/1,000 numbered copies (with first state 5mm tall ink stamp on colophon, in first state binding and dust-jacket with original glassine, and with second state text with "mountain" spelled without "a" in line 339 on p. 41). 8vo. 64 pp. Publisher's first state flexible black cloth, stamped in gilt; all edges untrimmed; in original inner glassine and first state dust-jacket (with the period after last sentence in the boxed announcement on front panel), faint pencil mark on front panel, light wear to spine; contemporary ownership signature in pencil on front free endpaper; half-title and title-page unopened. Gallup A6a

A beautiful copy of Eliot's modernist masterpiece, retaining its original and incredibly well-preserved first state dust-jacket and inner glassine.