Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. Appearance in The Dial. 8vo, original printed salmon wrappers, stapled, few faint water-stains, small splits along spine ends, in uncommonly nice condition. New York: Dial Publishing Co., 1922

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first american appearance of eliot's landmark poem, as printed in The Dial: Volume LXXII, Number 5, November 1922. Following the poem's first appearance in print in England in the October 1922 issue of The Criterion. Other contributions by W.B. Yeats, Pablo Picasso, Mina Loy, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Malcolm Cowley, Bertrand Russell, and others. A nice surviving example in the original wrappers.