Sought-after unsigned first edition book: The Waste Land. First edition, limited issue, numbered 126/1000; first state with "mountain" correctly spelled on page 41 and "w ter" on page 22. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1922. Bound in publisher's original flexible black cloth with gilt title, 5.25 x 7.75, 64 pages. Book condition: VG/None, with sunning to spine, light edgewear, and small area of paper loss to upper left corner of title page. According to Gallup, 'approximately the first 500 copies' were bound in flexible boards, have the limitation number stamped in 5 mm tall font, and have the correct spelling of "mountain" on page 41; later copies in the print run lack these issue points and are therefore considered second issues of the first edition. A superb example of this classic poem, which is considered a high point of modernist literature.
