The Waste Land.
London: Faber & Faber, 1961.
Slim folio, 51, [52-54 colophon etc.] pp. Original quarter vellum titled in gilt, marbled boards, no slipcase. A very good copy.
§ Limited edition, being number 260 of a limited 300 copies signed by T. S. Eliot. The most beautiful (by far) edition of Eliot's magnum opus, surely one of the most beautiful books of poetry of the 20th century printed at the Officina Bodoni by the greatest printer of poetry in the 20th century, Giovanni Mardersteig, who also printed Eliot's "The Four Quartets", the "26 Poems" of Dylan Thomas, and Ezra Pound's "Cavalcanti Poems" Item #126245
Price: $10,000.00
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