Search Results: the childermass by wyndham lewis

Jupiter Books, 1965-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2.1983 in x 17.8864 in x 12.0908 in.

Convici Friede, 1928. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. Part 1 only, as issued. Assumed first edition. Light wear on edges of boards, some mild rubbing and scuffing on covers. Book plate from previous owner on inside front cover; some discoloration from binding process on end leaves. Faint damp stain on bottom edge near spine throughout, otherwise clean. Good binding.

Methuen , 1956 . Unclipped jacket is missing top 2-3cm of spine, some loss to edges. Some wear to boards, foxing to endpapers & outer edge of page-block.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 322 pp. Printed dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with decorative trim and spine lettering in red. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a long split to front joint tracing half of the length of the spine; general rubbing and toning. Boards lightly soiled; light wear to edges; front joint slightly collapsed. Binding is sound. Stamp of the Hunterdon County Art Center of Clinton, New Jersey to front pastedown and title page. Ownership inscription of "H. Ford" to front free endpaper, and interior else unmarked. Very Good.

Methuen & Co. Ltd. 007512-Netherlands 1956, 401pp, hardcover cloth binding with dust jacket, in very good condition, some traces of use and age, dust jacket is worn and damaged at the edges. Rare second edition with illustrations by Michael Ayrton. Pictures on request. 1956, 401pp, hardcover cloth binding with dust jacket, in very good condition, some traces of use and age, dust jacket is worn and damaged at the edges. Rare second edition with illustrations by Michael Ayrton. Pictures on request.

London: Chatto and Windus. 1928. First edition, first printing, complete with original dustwrapper. First edition, first printing, complete with original dustwrapper. Publisher's original yellow cloth with red-patterned trim and red titles to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm but with some rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and some darkening to the top edge of the upper board. The contents, with some spotting to the front endpaper, a faint pencil inscription to the front pastedown, and some offsetting to the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. The upper text block edge is somewhat dusty. Publisher's original bookmark inside. The dustwapper, with darkening to the spine and a small tear to the upper tip, spotting to the dust flaps, and some bumping to the edges, is otherwise in good condition. A highly experimental and radical work which Frederic Jameson, in his book Fables of Aggression, dubbed "the supreme realization of what has to be called… Read More

London:: Chatto and Windus,, 1928.. First trade edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Remnant of tiny bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; else better than very good in an attractive, price-clipped jacket with some slight sunning to the spine.. 8vo,.

Chatto and Windus, London., 1928. First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 322. Buckram covers. Top edge gilt.One of 231 numbered copies signed by the author.Free endpapers slightly tanned. Very good in good, chipped and dusty dustwrapper repaired on the reverse.

London:: Chatto and Windus,, 1928.. First limited edition; No. 212 of 225 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis.. publisher's yellow buckram in dust jacket.. Some scattered light foxing; minor browning to endsheets; one corner bumped; else a very nice copy. The jacket has a few short tears, and the spine is lightly sunned with minor soiling.. 8vo,.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First Edition, limited issue, one of 225 numbered copies signed by Lewis. Some foxing, very good plus in a very good, chipped dust jacket.

London : Chatto and Windus , 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 322 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Lewis, Percy Wyndham. Purgatory ; Fiction. Genre: Zoology. Language: English.

Methuen, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean text, sound binding.

Chatto and Windus London, 1928 Full yellow buckram on heavy boards. Number 122 of only 255 copies so issued. Signed underneath the number by the author in black ink. Very good book without dust jacket. A tight clean copy nevertheless, with a sunned spine. Gilt titling has therefore faded a bit. Soft corners and a bit foxed inside, as is usual. The text block is gilt on the trimmed top edge, other edges are handsomely ragged. Very much a collectable despite my description. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Chatto & Windus,, 1928. 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; original yellow buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 225 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 219).

Mathuen & Co LTD. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. This specific hardback book is in like new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with little wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; This is the 1956 hardcover edition of this book. The dust jacket is in remarkably good condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 404 pages .

London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, trade issue. Yellow cloth stamped in red. Fine copy in very slightly spine-toned else about fine dust jacket. There were 2500 copies of the trade issue printed; 1000 sets of sheets were destroyed in 1946 when the title was recalled: *Morrow* A10b. The first volume in Lewis's "The Human Age" trilogy, a Dantesque voyage through the afterlife by two Englishmen killed in the war. A very nice copy.

London:: Chatto and Windus,, 1928.. First limited edition; No. 124 of 225 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis.. publisher's yellow buckram in dust jacket.. Light foxing to the fore-edge and a very few scattered pages, free endpapers at front and rear lightly tanned; slight use to cloth; tight and sound in a lightly dust-soiled jacket.. 8vo,.

London: Chatto and Windus,, 1928. First edition, first impression, of the first book in Lewis's epic trilogy The Human Age, considered by the literary critic Frederic Jameson as "the supreme realization of what has to be called theological science fiction" (Jameson, p. 6). Childermass is the author's most experimental work, and "a veritable summa of [his] narrative modernism" (ibid.). The book follows the adventures of Sattersthwaite and Pullman, two Englishmen killed in the Great War, as they travel through a Dantesque afterlife while awaiting to ascend to The Magnetic City. Chatto & Windus paid Lewis a £200 advance for the complete Childermass, but his failure to produce volumes II and III resulted in a lawsuit. The contract was eventually transferred to Methuen, and the complete trilogy was not published until 1955, when Methuen published Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta in a single volume. Collectively, these three books constitute Lewis's longest single fictive work, which was dramatized for the… Read More

1956/1955. Methuen, London. 1956; 1955. 2 vols. DWs designed by Michael Ayrton. Book One is first edition thus. Book One ex-library but clean apart from small purple stamp to verso of title-page and old tape marks to rear paste-down end-paper and rear flap of DW. Sl. wear to DWs incl. browned spine and rubbed extremities esp. to Book One which has a few tiny portions missing along edges.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Limited. hardcover. fine. Large 8vo, yellow cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Limited First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> One of 225 specially bound signed copies. End-leaves browned, as usual, otherwise fine.<br/><br/>