First edition. Black-and-white frontispiece reproduction of Robert Delaunay's watercolor, “St. Severin”; two pen-and-ink sketches of a nude by Pablo Picasso; illustration of a Brancusi, with related poem by Mina Loy; three paintings by Duncan Grant; two drawings by Adolph Dehn. 1 vols. 4to. Original salmon printed wrappers; lightly sunned at edges; a few small nicks to front edge, head and tail of spine, and front edge of spine; slight offsetting of frontispiece to next page, per usual; printing flaw to pages at rear of volume; otherwise near fine. Gallup C135 note and A6 (notes).

Item #377727

Contains the first American periodical appearance of T. S. Eliot's “The Waste Land” at pages 473 to 485 (without the Notes, which Eliot added for book publications), which was preceded only by its British publication in The Criterion the prior month.

The issue also contains William Butler Yeats' “The Player Queen” and Ezra Pound's “Paris Letter,” book reviews by Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Cowley, and Padraic Colum, and articles by Arthur Schnitzler, Elie Faure, Sherwood Anderson, and Gilbert Seldes, along with artwork by Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Brancusi, and Duncan Grant. A printing error near the end of the volume caused multiple leaves between pp. 579–592 — particularly Paul Rosenfied's "Musical Chronicle" — to be overprinted with other text.

A rare, near-fine copy of a modern literature landmark.