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Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965) The Waste Land, First Edition in Book Form.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
First edition, first issue, octavo, with "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41, "water" without the 'a' on page 22, and the 5 mm limitation statement; no. 461 of 1,000 copies printed; bound in flexible black boards, gilt-lettered, edges uncut (lacking rare salmon dust jacket; light offsetting to front endpapers); 7 5/8 x 5 in.
Connolly 30b; Gallup A6a.
Provenance: Stillington Hall Estate with bookplate.
Stillington Hall is a Tudor-style cottage estate built by the actor Leslie F. Bushwell for his family in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1922. The house was located directly across Gloucester harbor from T.S. Eliot's boyhood summer home, The Downs, which stands at 18 Edgemoor Road and is now a writer's retreat. Cape Ann can be seen in many places in Eliot's work, especially in The Waste Land. "Indeed, maritime images rooted in Gloucester reverberate throughout Eliot's work, whether it's 'the hand expert with sail and oar' from The Waste Land or 'the ragged rock in the restless waters' and 'the sea is all about us' in The Dry Salvages, a poem that is itself named for a group of rocks off Cape Ann." (Quoted from Robert Crawford's Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land.)
