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Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: Eliot, T. S.'s THE WASTE LAND Custom Clamshell Case Only. New York - Boni and Liveright: [1922, Book Date] Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For your First Edition. Elegant Black NUBA with BLACK sides, Custom GILT - Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed [sculpted] design on the side inspired from this modern classic. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Collection. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Eliot, T.S.. THE WASTE LAND. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 64pp. Small octavo. Flexible black cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, a few spots of dulling to the cloth sizing, but a good, sound copy. Second "edition" (i.e. second impression). Copy #987 of one thousand numbered copies. The reading 'mount in' on page 41, line 339, remains uncorrected in this second impression. The first printing was formally published on 15 December 1922 and copies were distributed early in 1923. GALLUP A6b. MODERN MOVEMENT 30b.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922, 1922.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in black cloth with gilt titles. A firm, clean copy of this limited edition second impression. Number 269 of 1000 copies. Faint small cup shadow on the front board. Slight sunning to spine. Previous owner's small signature on the first endpaper.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. THE WASTE LAND. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good condition, and lacking scarce dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. Light sunning to spine, with fraying to cloth at head and tail. Some scuffing to front and rear covers. Age toning to interior pages. Shelved in Case 0. First Edition, Second Printing, though stated as "Second Edition" on copyright page. 1 of 1,000 copies, though this copy is unnumbered. 1373990. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, Second Printing, 1/1000 Copies.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
T S Eliot. The Waste Land (1st ed, 2nd impression). Boni & Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second impression (technically not a second edition as stated on the colophon page) of the T.S. Eliot masterpiece The Waste Land, regarded as one of the most influential literary works of the twentieth century. Published in 1922 by Boni & Liveright and numbered 164/1000. Publisher s cloth boards with gilt lettering and deckled edges. Slim 8vo, 64 pages. With a sticker from the famed New York small bookstore and literary salon The Sunwise Turn, founded in 1916 by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowby-Clarke and operated until 1927, affixed to the rear pastedown a nice association. Light bumping and chipping to extremities. Some rubbing to boards. Minor foxing to endpapers.
Seller: Weinberg Modern Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S.. The Waste Land.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 64 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth stamped in gold. Second edition; No. 914 of 1000 copies. Contemporary bookseller's ticket to bottom of front pastedown; else a bright, fresh copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good + condition Hardcover, colophon page states 1922, one thousand copies of this Second Edition of The Waste Land were printed of which this volume is number 48 of 1000. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine and cover with deckled edges. Includes Notes, 64 pages. With the incorrect "mount in," line 339 on page 41, rather than mountain". The exception to the condition is lightly faded spine, small bookplate on the front pastedown, slight fade to the top rear board and 2 small spots on the rear board. No DJ.
Seller: BookEnds Bookstore & Curiosities, Ojai, CA, U.S.A.
Eliot, T S. The Waste Land. Limited edition. 1922. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$3501.94 + shipping
Description: 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 64pp. With fragile and damaged dust jacket. 2nd state with 'mount in' on page 41. In modern folding case. G: in good condition in a clear protective wrapper. Water staining to cover and lower edge of prelims. Inner hinge cracking. Tape repairs to half-title and title. Margins darkened. Occasional edge-tearing. Sporadic pencil underlining
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. The Waste Land. Boni & Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$4495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second printing. Number 548/1,000 (stamped in type 2-mm high, per Gallup A6b) of the second impression limited to just 1000 copies. (Though stated as the "second edition" on the colophon page, this second impression of 1000 copies was printed from the same setting of type as the first printing and is more accurately termed, as listed in Gallup, the "second impression.") With the incorrect 'mount in,' line 339, p. 41. Slim octavo; 64pp. Publisher's stiff black cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges deckled; in the original salmon-pink dust jacket printed in black. Near Fine to Fine with just a slight bump to the top of the spine. Almost certainly unread with many pages still uncut. The gilt lettering is clean and fresh and the black boards show no discoloration. The mylar protected dust jacket is Near Fine without any restoration. There is a 1 cm closed tear to the bottom of the front panel and a light 4 mm by 3 mm stain in the text box on the front panel. Some mild darkening to the spine and the top edge of the front panel. There are a couple of very minor smudges to the jacket panels. The rear flap has been folded twice at the lower right hand corner. The largest of the two folds is 2 1/4" in length). The lettering on the spine is somewhat off-center and rolls over to the back of the dust jacket. From the estate of Scofield Thayer, benefactor of the arts and publisher of the literary magazine THE DIAL from 1920 to 1926. Thayer was a school friend of Eliot and arranged for Eliot to be the 1922 recipient of the Dial $2,000 annual award to a young American writer. The award is noted on the front panel of the dust cover. Overall a simply remarkable copy of one of the most famous poetic works of the Twentieth Century. We grade our books conservatively to insure your satisfaction. Photos happily provided on request.
Seller: Atlas Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T.S.. The Waste Land. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922, 1922.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: 'Second Edition' (as printed on the colophon): one of 1000 numbered copies of what is actually a second printing of the first edition. Mostly unopened; top edge minutely foxed; an exceptional, fine copy in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Copy 391 of 1000. Original flexible black cloth, one of 500 copies so bound (the first binding issue). "Mountain" is correctly spelled on p. 41. Covers and margins mildly damp stained. Gallup A6a; Woolmer 28.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T[homas] S[tearns].. The Waste Land.. New York Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$5747.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, number 528 of 1000 copies; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, bookplate to front paste down, spine very slightly faded, otherwise very good. 1000 copies of the first edition were issued on 15 December 1922 of which the first 500 or so were bound in flexible boards with the limitation number some 5mm in height. The second batch, of which this copy is a lovely example, were put out in stiff board and the numbering size reduced to 2mm. Gallup A6, Hayward 332.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
T. S. Eliot. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$5772.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing of the first edition of what is probably the single most influential work of poetry in the 20th century. Published by Boni and Liveright, New York, in 1922. Though there are some losses to the edges of the dust jacket the book is overall in an excellent state, the binding tight and the pages clean throughout.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
Eliot, T.S.. The Waste Land. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with water lacking its a on page 22, and mountains spelled correctly on page 41. Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. The Waste Land was published in periodical form (without the Notes) in the autumn of 1922, in the inaugural issue of T.S. Eliot's journal The Criterion, and in The Dial), and then in book form on 15 December. T.S. Eliot, whose literary reputation was established with his first book in 1917, was awarded the annual literary prize of The Dial magazine for The Waste Land in 1922 by publisher Scofield Thayer, a friend and classmate from Milton Academy and Harvard. Thayer's aim was to establish Eliot and American literature among the vanguard of modern cultural activity. "It did not hurt that 1922 also saw the long-heralded publication of Joyce's Ulysses, or that in 1923 Eliot linked himself and Joyce with Einstein in the public mind in an essay entitled 'Ulysses, Order and Myth'." A LANDMARK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE. Gallup A6; Connolly The Modern Movement 30b; Hayward English Poetry 332 Black cloth. Slight wear to head and tail of spine else a good plus copy Pp. [1]-[6], 9-64. The first leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo First Edition, first issue, number 390 of 1000 copies, with water lacking its a on page 22, and mountains spelled correctly on page 41.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first state; number 415 of 1,000 numbered copies; with stamped number 5mm tall, the "a" in the word "water" missing on page 22 and "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41. Bound in publisher's original black cloth over flexible boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper board, with edges rough cut; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with faint wear to cloth, visible mostly only in raking light, pages tanned, a corner crease to the bottom of page 47/48. A bright copy in much nicer condition than as normally found of what is considered by many to be one of the most important poems of the 20th century.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. The Waste Land (wasteland). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This copy is SIGNED by T.S. Eliot on a publisher's page tipped in. A beautiful copy in the First Issue flexible boards with the 1922 year printed on the title page. One of 1000 numbered copies bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's black cloth with minor wear to the edges. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with light repair. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Eliot, T. S.. THE WASTE LAND. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good Condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine salmon with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. With scarce dust jacket, lacking most of the lower half of spine, from just above the price through half of the words 'Boni and.' Old tape reinforcement to interior of spine, and one additional piece of tape used to repair front cover. Small closed tear along upper rear hinge. Covers and spine sun-faded, with the flaps still showing bright salmon. Lower third of front hinge splitting. In flexible black cloth boards with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Spine with three small fraying tears along the lower third. Ink name to the front free endpaper. First Edition, Second State, #494/1000, with line 339 on page 41 dropping the 'a' in 'mountain,' One of the first approximately 500 copies with the flexible cloth binding and the numbering 5mm. high on the colophon. This copy also with the 'a' dropped from 'water' on page 22, although Gallup cites it as insignificant for determining priority. Dust jacket lacking the period at the end of the boxed announcement. NF Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. One of the most important poems of the 20th century, The Waste Land features oft quoted lines such as "April is the cruelest month" and "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Gallup A6a, T. S. Eliot: a bibliography. 1368626. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Eliot, T.S.. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York, 1922.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL boards with the "a" missing in the word "water" on page 22, the word "mountain" correctly spelled on page 41. Second issues lack the 1922 on the title page and mention "second edition" on the copyright page.This copy is a First Issue with flexible boards. The book is in excellent condition. This is number 362 of 1,000 copies printed. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy in collector's condition. We buy T.S. Eliot First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
ELIOT, T. S.. The Waste Land.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: 64 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth stamped in gold in Second edition; No. 914 of 1000 copies.dust jacket. First edition; presumed second state with stiffer boards and without the "a" in "mountain" on p. 41. The dust jacket lacks a period at the end of the second sentence in the boxed area of the front panel. Tiny Brentano's label to rear pastedown; else a bright, unworn copy with a slight bump the lower corners of the boards. The dust jacket is slightly faded at the backstrip; otherwise a beautiful example with a little dust-soiling at the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.