The Waste Land by Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] - 1922

New York: Harper & Row, 1966 First printing of the stated first edition. Minimal signs of wear and faint toning to cover margins of jacket, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. A Lovely copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books / Random House, 1982 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first book. Signed by Brad Leithauser directly on the title page. Book with light age-toning to endpapers and faint toning to the top edge of boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear to upper back cover, faint toning to spine and cover margins, else in fine condition.

London : Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928 Limited edition, 1 of 55 signed and numbered copies, this being number 11; rebound in custom quarter leather marbled boards, ribbed spine and gilt-lettered, xxvi, 84pp. printed on Millbourn, hand-made paper, no dust wrapper issued for this signed edition [Gallup B7a]. Signed by T. S. Eliot. Small stain to front endpaper and light rubbing to corners of boards and spine ends, else book in fine condition.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press /Atlantic-Little, Brown Books, 1983 First printing of the first edition, in original dust jacket. Faint rubbing to bottom edge of boards, else book in fine condition; with light wear to spine ends / corners and light rubbing to back fold, else fine.

Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Presentation copy (signed and dated in year of publication on the half-title page) to famed civil rights lawyer and activist, Jack Greenberg (1924–2016): "For Jack Greenberg / long in the / Storm. / Sincerely, / Alice Walker / 2-26-73." Provenance: the personal copy of Jack Greenberg, consigned by his adopted son William Cole.
Light rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to cover margins, light wear to spine ends, and light shelf wear.

Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.

Greenberg represented Martin Luther King Jr., but was best known for his role in litigating Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 civil rights case in which the high court rejected “separate but equal” public schools for blacks and… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956 First edition, stated first printing. Book with a bump to crown of spine, toning along board edge and pastedowns, and light rubbing to board ends, else in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine and cover margins, light stain to upper right front cover, tiny hole to middle front spine-fold, mild chipping to spine ends and corners, tape strip to verso of upper spine, and mild soiling.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam"

American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.

Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
"Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Presentation copy (signed and dated in year of publication on the half-title page) to famed civil rights lawyer and activist, Jack Greenberg (1924–2016): "For Jack Greenberg / long in the / Storm. / Sincerely, / Alice Walker / 2-26-73." Provenance: the personal copy of Jack Greenberg, consigned by his adopted son William Cole.
Light rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to cover margins, light wear to spine ends, and light shelf wear.

Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.

Greenberg represented Martin Luther King Jr., but was best known for his role in litigating Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 civil rights case in which the high court rejected “separate but equal” public schools for blacks and… Read More

New York / San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed twice by Alice Walker directly on the title page. Book with a light bump to upper corner and light toning to cover margins, else in fine condition; dust jacket with faint wear to extremities, else fine.

Madison: The Sixties Press, 1967 First printing of the first bilingual, English/Spanish edition. Signed and dated, in year of publication, by Robert Bly directly on the front endpage: "Best Wishes / Robert Bly / Dec 20, 67." Toning to spine and cover margins and a small stain to lower front fold, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.