The Writer and the Absolute
by Wyndham Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book, cloth edges and corners worn; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edges worn, corners with close tears
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1952. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, red-framed gilt spine titles, illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, 202 pp. Very good book, cloth edges and corners worn; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edges worn, corners with close tears. Jacket design by Charles Handley-Read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1708
- Title
- The Writer and the Absolute
- Author
- Wyndham Lewis
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Charles Handley-Read
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, red-framed gilt spine titles, illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, 202 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, cloth edges and corners worn; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edges worn, corners with close tears
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Wyndham Lewis, The Writer and The Absolute, Vorticism
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...