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THE CHILDERMASS: Section I
by LEWIS, Wyndham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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 theological science fiction". (Jameson, Frederic: Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. pg. 6) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22864
- Title
- THE CHILDERMASS: Section I
- Author
- LEWIS, Wyndham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing, complete with original dustwrappe
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Chatto and Windus. 1928
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lucius Books
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York, North Yorkshire
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- 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....
- Rubbing
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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