8vo. Original gold-stamped flexible black cloth (crease to front board, spine slightly dulled, a few tiny scuffs); original printed salmon dust jacket (lacking original spine panel with neat rebacking, minor losses to corners, backed in japan tissue with a few tears repaired). Provenance: Sold Swann Galleries, 1992, Sale 1591, lot 144. 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, number 362 of 1,000 copies. FIRST ISSUE with the "a" in "mountain" in line 339 on p.41, and with the number on the colophon measuring 5mm. Ezra Pound, who suggested extensive revisions to The Waste Land, and who was influential in the publication of the work, described Eliot's poem as "the justification of the modern experiment since 1900."  “Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion” (Connolly, The Modern Movement 43). Gallup A6a.