Fine Books and Manuscripts
Fine Books and Manuscripts
Property from the Descendants of Scofield Thayer
Lot Closed
July 16, 06:55 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Descendants of Scofield Thayer
Eliot, T.S.
The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922
8vo. Publisher's flexible black cloth boards, titled in gilt, with original glassine inner jacket and original salmon printed dustjacket. Promotional 4 page brochure for the Modern Library laid in. Uncut, unrubbed, unfaded and as near to pristine as one could hope for, an exceptionally well-preserved copy of an example here in the first state with the 5mm. colophon.
REFERENCE
Connolly 30b; Gallup A6a
PROVENANCE
Scofield Thayer