Lot 509
Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land, first edition, first printing, one of 1,000 copies, second state, New York, Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Hammer Price: £5,500
Description
Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land, first edition, first printing, one of 1,000 copies, second state with "mount in" on p.41 and colophon numbering measuring 2mm. tall, original second state stiff cloth, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, very light creasing to head, 2 or 3 small chips to head of foot of lower panel, a very good copy, [Gallup A6a], New York, Boni and Liveright, 1922.
⁂ The first edition of this key modernist text, a cornerstone to any serious collection of 20th century literature and increasingly scarce in the dust-jacket.
Description
Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land, first edition, first printing, one of 1,000 copies, second state with "mount in" on p.41 and colophon numbering measuring 2mm. tall, original second state stiff cloth, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, very light creasing to head, 2 or 3 small chips to head of foot of lower panel, a very good copy, [Gallup A6a], New York, Boni and Liveright, 1922.
⁂ The first edition of this key modernist text, a cornerstone to any serious collection of 20th century literature and increasingly scarce in the dust-jacket.
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