Lot 1038: ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965. The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. 1888-1965.
The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Original flexible black cloth lettered in gilt, glassine wrapper and printed dust jacket. Custom clamshell case. Minor chipping to glassine, some marginal toning to jacket, spine slightly toned, chipping to jacket edges and spine with partial loss of two letters in imprint.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE in flexible cloth boards, with "mountain" correctly spelled on page 41 and number on colophon 5 mm high. Copy 238 of 500 in the first state, of 1,000 total in the first edition. Gallup A6a.