Penguin Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 108 pages. First Penguin Classics edition. Edited by Frank Kermode, with Introduction, Suggestions for Further Reading, Brief Chronology, Textual Notes, Explanatory Notes. Mass-market paperback with glossy wraps, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-toned, faint foxing to top edge. Booksale price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 15 pages, all in the introduction or end-notes.

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First published in 1922, The Waste Land generated great controversy due to it's stilted style and departure from the structure of the era.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AEB-284
Title: The Waste Land and Other Poems
Author: T.S. Eliot
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0141180722
ISBN 13: 9780141180724
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: FRANK KERMODE, POETRY
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry; Frank Kermode; T.S. Eliot;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...