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Lot 510
Eliot (T.S.) "The Waste Land", in The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, Volume I, No. I, pp.50-64, R. Cobden Sanderson, October, 1922.
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
Eliot (T.S.) "The Waste Land", in The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, Volume I, No. I, pp.50-64, occasional foxing, Autograph Letter signed from a BBC producer thanking Alan Clodd for the loan of this volume for use in a 1984 documentary about Eliot, book label of David Garnett to inside front cover, original printed wrappers, light creasing and browning to spine, light toning and surface soiling to covers, some slight fraying to yapp edges at head and foot, but an excellent example overall, [Gallup C135], 8vo, R. Cobden Sanderson, October, 1922.
⁂ The first appearance in print of the most important poem of the 20th century. This copy with a distinguished collecting provenance.
The Waste Land was published in 1922, the most auspicious of literary years, in the magazine founded and edited by Eliot. This issue included a plan of Dostoevsky's unwritten novel The Life of a Great Sinner (co-translated by Virginia Woolf) as well as an essay by Herman Hesse and a review of Joyce's Ulysses.
David Garnett (1892-1981) writer, publisher and member of the Bloomsbury Group. Alan Clodd (1918-2002) book publisher, collector and dealer.
Description
Eliot (T.S.) "The Waste Land", in The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, Volume I, No. I, pp.50-64, occasional foxing, Autograph Letter signed from a BBC producer thanking Alan Clodd for the loan of this volume for use in a 1984 documentary about Eliot, book label of David Garnett to inside front cover, original printed wrappers, light creasing and browning to spine, light toning and surface soiling to covers, some slight fraying to yapp edges at head and foot, but an excellent example overall, [Gallup C135], 8vo, R. Cobden Sanderson, October, 1922.
⁂ The first appearance in print of the most important poem of the 20th century. This copy with a distinguished collecting provenance.
The Waste Land was published in 1922, the most auspicious of literary years, in the magazine founded and edited by Eliot. This issue included a plan of Dostoevsky's unwritten novel The Life of a Great Sinner (co-translated by Virginia Woolf) as well as an essay by Herman Hesse and a review of Joyce's Ulysses.
David Garnett (1892-1981) writer, publisher and member of the Bloomsbury Group. Alan Clodd (1918-2002) book publisher, collector and dealer.
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