Description: The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, Arion Press, 2007. Illustrated with an original painting by R. B. Kitaj entitled 'If Not, Not'. Essay on the poem by Helen Vendler. Essay on the painting by Marco Livingstone. DESCRIPTION: Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. Nearly square 12 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches, 66 ppp. Bound in full grey-tan cloth over boards with dark brown titling on front cover and spine. Types are handset 18-point Bauer Bodoni for the poem and 12-point Bodoni Book in Monotype composition and casting by Mackenzie & Harris for subsidiary text, all letterpress printed. The papers are Somerset Book (a British mouldmade sheet) for the text with Mohawk Superfine for the pictorial pages, which were printed by color offset lithography at Hatcher Press. Without slipcase, as originally issued. Book protected with a clear archival Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. CONDITION: Fine ("as new") condition. DISCUSSION: The important 1957 painting "If Not, Not" by R. B. Kitaj takes its inspiration from T. S. Eliot's landmark modernist poem. Kitaj stated that his painting bears "a certain allegiance to Eliot's Waste Land and its family of loose assemblages". Proprietor Andrew Hoyem ingeniously illustrates the poem with Kitaj's painting by using small sections of the painting interspersed throughout the text in 14 page intervals, with the entire painting finally revealed at the conclusion of the poem. An elegant presentation of Eliot's landmark twentieth century poem. Please examine all of the photographs carefully and ask all questions prior to purchase as sale is final.
Price: 1500 USD
Location: Peoria, Illinois
End Time: 2025-01-11T01:35:05.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25 USD
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Author: T.S. Eliot
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition
Signed: No
Publisher: Arion Press
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Modernist poetry
Original/Facsimile: Original
