Lot 101: ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965. The Waste Land.

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965. The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liverlight, [1922]. Original black cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Slightest fading to jacket spine and a touch of wear to edge of rear jacket flap, but a very fine, mostly unopened copy. “Second edition,” no 546 of 1000 copies printed. Gallup says that although the present printing is “called ‘Second Edition’ in the colophon, this is actually a second impression from the same setting of type as the first edition, but with a dif ferent colophon” (Gallup A6b).