The Waste Land - Signed -
T.S. Eliot
1962 - Faber &, London - One of 300 copies.
The most exquisite presentation of Eliot’s masterpiece, signed by him and numbered 220 of only 300 copies.
‘Printed in Dante type by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona. The edition consists of 300 numbered copies on paper made by Fratelli Magnani, Prescia.’
Fine and housed in the publisher’s original matching slipcase. By the end of the 20th century Eliot's work stood as the archetypal modernist poem. It seemed to exemplify the crisis of the self and a whole Western culture despite Eliot's claim that he "wrote The Waste Land simply to relieve [his] feelings." After the Great War, and also after World War Two, it provided a voice for a whole generation with its themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.
“Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion, ‘the hope only of empty men’, written in Switzerland after a near break-down, pruned of some connecting passages (including a ship-wreck) by Pound, and as Adrienne Monnier wrote of Pelléas, hard to listen to without tears. ‘Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the modern experiment since 1900’ (Pound)." - Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement.
Reference: Gallup A6d.
Quarto (binding size 29.4x20.6cm), pp. [4] 52 [1] [1(limitation page)] [2]. In publisher’s vellum spine and brown marbled paper boards highlighted in gilt, spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Publisher’s slipcase in matching brown and gilt highlighted marbled boards. Condition: Fine in very good slipcase with some rubbing to edges and and some joints split to outer edges. Ref: 112157 Price: HK$ 90,000
‘Printed in Dante type by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona. The edition consists of 300 numbered copies on paper made by Fratelli Magnani, Prescia.’
Fine and housed in the publisher’s original matching slipcase. By the end of the 20th century Eliot's work stood as the archetypal modernist poem. It seemed to exemplify the crisis of the self and a whole Western culture despite Eliot's claim that he "wrote The Waste Land simply to relieve [his] feelings." After the Great War, and also after World War Two, it provided a voice for a whole generation with its themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.
“Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion, ‘the hope only of empty men’, written in Switzerland after a near break-down, pruned of some connecting passages (including a ship-wreck) by Pound, and as Adrienne Monnier wrote of Pelléas, hard to listen to without tears. ‘Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the modern experiment since 1900’ (Pound)." - Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement.
Reference: Gallup A6d.
Quarto (binding size 29.4x20.6cm), pp. [4] 52 [1] [1(limitation page)] [2]. In publisher’s vellum spine and brown marbled paper boards highlighted in gilt, spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Publisher’s slipcase in matching brown and gilt highlighted marbled boards. Condition: Fine in very good slipcase with some rubbing to edges and and some joints split to outer edges. Ref: 112157 Price: HK$ 90,000