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ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
8°. Original gold-stamped flexible cloth. Provenance: Josephine & Leslie Schwabacher (bookplate on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, NUMBER 1 OF 1,000 COPIES, with "mountain" spelled correctly on p.41 and with the number on the colophon measuring 5mm tall.
Cyril Connolly gives arguably the best summation of the work: "Becoming as hard to obtain as 'Prufrock'... Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion, 'the hope only of empty men', written in Switzerland after a near break-down, pruned of some connecting passages (including a ship-wreck) by Pound, and as Adrienne Monnier wrote to Pelléas, hard to listen to without tears--'si mystérieusement émouvante'. 'Eliot's Waste Land is I think the justification of the modern experiment since 1900' (Pound)" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, p.36). Gallup A6a. A FINE COPY.
8°. Original gold-stamped flexible cloth. Provenance: Josephine & Leslie Schwabacher (bookplate on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, NUMBER 1 OF 1,000 COPIES, with "mountain" spelled correctly on p.41 and with the number on the colophon measuring 5mm tall.
Cyril Connolly gives arguably the best summation of the work: "Becoming as hard to obtain as 'Prufrock'... Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion, 'the hope only of empty men', written in Switzerland after a near break-down, pruned of some connecting passages (including a ship-wreck) by Pound, and as Adrienne Monnier wrote to Pelléas, hard to listen to without tears--'si mystérieusement émouvante'. 'Eliot's Waste Land is I think the justification of the modern experiment since 1900' (Pound)" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, p.36). Gallup A6a. A FINE COPY.