8vo. Original gold-stamped flexible black cloth (lacking the rare dust jacket, otherwise bright); old glassine; cloth folding case. 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, number 402 of 1,000 copies. Mixed issue with the misprint "mount in" in line 339 on p.41, but with the number on the colophon measuring 5mm and bound in flexible boards. Ezra Pound, who suggested extensive revisions to The Waste Land, and who was influential in the publication of the work, described Eliot's poem as "the justification of the modern experiment since 1900."  “Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion” (Connolly, The Modern Movement 43). Gallup A6a.