ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965). The Waste Land. Richmond, Surrey: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923.

8vo (223 x 142 mm). (Some spotting and minor toning.) Original blue marbled paper over boards, white paper label to upper cover printed in black (in Gallup's state 2 of 3, no priority), uncut (some sunning and toning, lacking spine panel, slight wear to extremities). Provenance: Emily Forsyth Glessner (signature).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, one of about 450 copies. Published on 12 September 1923, by 11 February 1925 The Waste Land was already out of print with 443 copies sold. This edition of The Waste Land was of particular importance to publishers Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Leonard stated that The Waste Land was "... the poem which had greatest influence upon English poetry, indeed upon English literature, than any other in the 20th century" (Rhein, p. 22). Gallup A6c; Donna E. Rhein, The Handprinted Books of Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press; Woolmer 28.