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Blasting and Bombardiering
by WYNDHAM LEWIS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Impression, second state (limp boards). One of only 500 copies thus. Fine in a near fine dustjacket, with f/Near Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Impression, second state. One of only 500 copies thus. Fine in a near fine dustjacket, with foxing to the upper edges and spine. Otherwise a fine copy in excellent condition.
Blasting and Bombarding was the first of two autobiographical books written by Lewis (followed by Rude Assignment, 1950), and covers the period from 1914 to 1926, tracking Lewis's progress through the First World War and the literary and artistic upheavals of Modernism. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black, top edge yellow. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and 13 plates from artwork by the author, 4 plates from photographs. Octavo. A wonderful copy in great condition.
Synopsis
Blasting and Bombardiering is the of the English painter, novelist, and satirist Percy Wyndham Lewis. It was published in 1937. It was in this work that Lewis first identified the critically oft-mentioned "Men of 1914" group of himself, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31567
- Title
- Blasting and Bombardiering
- Author
- WYNDHAM LEWIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Impression, second state (limp boards). One of only 500 copies thus. Fine in a near fine dustjacket, with f
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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