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The Childermass.: Section 1.
by LEWIS, Wyndham
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- Hardcover
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- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus,, 1928. First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 143 of 231 copies signed by the author. The Childermass was the first book in Lewis's epic trilogy, "the supreme realization of what has to be called theological science fiction" (Jameson, p. 6). This is the author's most experimental work and "a veritable summa of [his] narrative modernism" (ibid.). It was published simultaneously with the trade edition. Chatto & Windus paid Lewis a £200 advance for the complete series but his failure to produce sections 2 and 3 resulted in a lawsuit. The contract was eventually transferred to Methuen, who published Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta in a single volume in 1955. Collectively, these three books came to be titled The Human Age, and they constitute Lewis's longest single fictive work. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered and border in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Spine cocked and toned, corners bumped, offsetting to endpapers: a very good copy. Morrow & Lafourcade A10a. Fredric Jameson, Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist, 1981.
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- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167448
- Title
- The Childermass.
- Author
- LEWIS, Wyndham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Chatto and Windus,
- Date Published
- 1928
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