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Property from the Descendants of Scofield Thayer

Eliot, T.S. | The most important English Modernist poem

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July 16, 06:55 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Property from the Descendants of Scofield Thayer


Eliot, T.S.

The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922


8vo. Publisher's flexible black cloth boards, titled in gilt, with original glassine inner jacket and original salmon printed dustjacket. Promotional 4 page brochure for the Modern Library laid in. Uncut, unrubbed, unfaded and as near to pristine as one could hope for, an exceptionally well-preserved copy of an example here in the first state with the 5mm. colophon.


REFERENCE

Connolly 30b; Gallup A6a


PROVENANCE

Scofield Thayer