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THE CHILDERMASS by WYNDHAM LEWIS - 1928

by WYNDHAM LEWIS

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THE CHILDERMASS

by WYNDHAM LEWIS

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NEW YORK NY: COVICI>FRIEDDE, 1928. hard cover no dj. very good no dj.
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  • Book Condition Used - very good no dj
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher COVICI>FRIEDDE
  • Place of Publication NEW YORK NY
  • Date Published 1928
  • Pages 322
  • Keywords novel

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THE CHILDERMASS [Book One of The Human Age]

by Wyndham Lewis

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Jupiter Books, 1965-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2.1983 in x 17.8864 in x 12.0908 in.
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The Childermass: Part 1

by Wyndham Lewis

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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.
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The Childermass: Section I [all published]

The Childermass: Section I [all published]

by Wyndham Lewis

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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.
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THE CHILDERMASS: Section I.

by LEWIS, Wyndham

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London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. First edition, 1/225 copies (this #144) signed by the author. 8vo. (8), 322 pp. Original yellow buckram (some soiling), gilt spine title. Scattered light foxing, offset to endpapers, owner's name on front endpaper, else very good.
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THE CHILDERMASS: Section I

by LEWIS, Wyndham

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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
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The Childermass: Section 1.

by LEWIS, Wyndham

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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.
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The Childermass: Section 1

by LEWIS, WYNDHAM

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Used - First Edition, limited issue, one of 225 numbered copies signed by Lewis. Some foxing, very good plus in a very good, chipped du
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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.
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The childermass : Section 1

The childermass : Section 1

by Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957)

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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.
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CHILDERMASS: SECTION I

by LEWIS, Wyndham

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LONDON, CHATTO, 1928, 1928. SCARCE IN DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover.
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The Childermass.: Section 1.

by LEWIS, Wyndham

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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
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