The Waste Land

by T.S. Eliot 

Limited edition.  London:  Faber & Faber, 1961 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition, in a slipcase.

• Marbled covers with ivory leather at spine and gilt title. 
• Boards show some edgewear.  Corners are bumped with exposed board  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text and is somewhat darkened, has a small mark, with firm ends.  See photos.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps show little to no sign of wear, have a small pencil mark at ffep.
• Signed by the author on the colophon page.  See photos.  
• Interior shows little sign of age or wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block has gilt at head, deckle fore and foot edges. 
• Slip case of marbled boards shows some edgewear, a stain to one corner.  See photos.  
• PS2026.0422

52 pages. 8 x 11.25 inches

Limited, numbered and signed edition of one of the most influential works of the 20th century.  Publisher's marbled boards with ivory leather at spine, gilt ruling and title.  Edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is #259.  Signed by the poet on the Colophon.  Housed in a matching marbled slip case.  Some edgewear to the boards and wear at the lower corners, a small ding to the gilt at the head.  Interior is very fresh, a lovely work of typography.  Condition is overall Very Good Plus.  

There is probably no poem more iconic of the Modernist movement, twentieth century poetry, and recent Western cultural history than The Waste Land.  Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) had been suffering against his era for at least a year, lamenting to a friend that “the whole of contemporary politics etc. oppresses me with a continuous physical horror like the feeling of growing madness in one’s own brain.  It is rather a horror to be sane in the midst of this; it is too dreadful, too huge.  It goes too far for rage.”  Eliot channeled these feelings of disillusionment into his longest and best poem to date, The Waste Land, and he was confident that its publication would contribute toward the swelling zeitgeist of the modernist movement.

Set in Dante type by Giovanni Mardersteig and hand printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona, Italy in December, 1961.  Paper made by Fratelli Magnani, Pescia.  Edition of 300 numbered copies, all signed by the author.  This is copy #259.

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