8vo. Original drab wrappers printed in red and black, partially unopened (small loss to foot of spine and short tear to foot of lower joint); cloth folding case. 

FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIOT'S "PRUFROCK," which preceded the first edition in book form by two years. Harriet Monroe included "Prufrock" in her magazine at Ezra Pound's urging, marking Eliot's first appearance outside of a school or university publication. "Nothing like the first three lines of 'Prufrock' had previously appeared in English poetry. 'Prufrock' was the first poem by [Eliot or Pound] to go beyond experiment to achieve perfection. It represented a break with the immediate past as radical as that of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798)" (Britannica). A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE RARE FIRST PRINTING OF ELIOT'S MASTERPIECE OF MODERNIST VERSE. Connolly, The Modern Movement 30 (1917 edition); Gallup C18.