The Waste Land and Other Poems. London: Faber, 1940. First Edition. Publisher’s paper-covered boards lettered in red, in original pink dust jacket printed in blue. Light fading along spine of jacket, otherwise a fine bright copy.

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land established him as a key modernist figure, vividly portraying the fragmentation and despair of Europe after the Great War. Also included in this collection is Ash Wednesday (1930) reflecting Eliot’s turn toward overtly religious poetry following his conversion to Anglicanism in 1927.

Departing from the fragmented despair of The Waste Land, this sequence of six poems traces a spiritual journey—from despair and purgation to tentative hope—mirroring the liturgical themes of Lent and penitence.