ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land, in The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, vol. I, no. I. London: R. Cobden-Sanderson. October 1922.
8vo. Original cream card wrappers printed in black and red; pp. 103, [1]; spine and extremities of wrappers very lightly toned with a few small nicks and creases; light spotting to edges, overall a very well preserved copy.
First appearance in print of one of the most iconic poems of the twentieth century: a remarkably well-preserved copy from a limited print run of just 600 copies.
The publication of The Waste Land in the inaugural issue of The Criterion, the quarterly journal founded and edited by Eliot, preceded both its appearance in the American magazine The Dial in November 1922 and its first book edition, published in New York by Boni and Liveright in December of the same year. The poem appeared without the dedication to Ezra Pound and the "Notes".
The issue also features work by Dostoevsky (translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf), T. Sturge Moore, May Sinclair, Hermann Hesse, and Valery Larbaud’s review of Ulysses.
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