The Waste Land
Newburgh, NY: Thornwillow Press, 2018. Frontispiece photograph of Eliot. Limited edition. Publisher's half blue cloth over letterpress boards, illustrated endpapers. Fine. Item #235859
First appearing in 1922 in the inaugural issue of Eliot’s literary magazine, The Criterion—and quickly thereafter in its first American edition—The Waste Land is here presented in a finely crafted limited edition by Thornwillow Press (2018). Exemplifying Thornwillow’s reputation for marrying literary landmarks with artisanal bookmaking, this edition does justice to Eliot’s fractured yet enduring meditation on cultural decline and spiritual renewal, long recognized as the defining poem of literary modernism. The volume includes a facsimile of Eliot’s original opening, later cut before publication, and an introduction by Eliot scholar Sravani Sen-Das, situating the work within the contexts of myth, history, and Eastern philosophy. One of only 200 numbered copies bound in cloth and letterpress boards, this being no. 83, signed on the colophon by the publisher and additionally signed by Sen-Das at the close of her introduction.
List of subscribers additionally laid in.
Price: $600.00