The Demon of Progress in the Arts by LEWIS, Wyndham - 1954

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955 A Nice Solid Clean Book, No Marks Or Inscriptions.. Slight Aging To Eps. Cloth Covered Boards. Bright Gilt Title On Spine, Some Sunning To Spine And Top Edge.Dj Is Pale Yellow With Black Printing. On Front And Spine. Previous Owner Strengthened Spine End Folds With Tape Made A Small Repair To Front Tail Of Jacket. Dj Is Price Clipped. Shelf Rubbing And Minor Chipping To Edges.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, blue-grey boards, pp. vi, 97. 5000 copies printed. Covers a bit faded, else very good in a price-clipped dust jacket that shows small chips to the edges. Morrow & Lafourcade A39b..

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955 Gold gilt title on spine. Sunning to blue cloth at top and bottom of both front and rear boards and spine. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Dust jacket with price intact, now in protective Brodart cover.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

Methuen, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. First Edition. 97 pages. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering over black cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Pages have a distinct odour. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear to edges and corners. Moderate foxing and soiling to DJ.

LEWIS, Wyndham. The Demon of Progress in the Arts. Illus. Orig. cloth, dust jacker. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1955. First American edition. Fine copy.

London, Methuen & Co., (1954).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. vi, 97; 6 pages of b/w plates, postscript; original black cloth, dustjacket marked, torn and spine browned, price clipped, a good copy. The Author analyses the psychology of exclusive innovation, of newness for newness' sake. He shows how two of the most dynamic principles in our century, revolution and technology, have galvanized the arts to their undoing.

London: Methuen & Co., 1954. Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 97pp. 1st edition 1954. Price-clipped d/w spine age-discoloured with small loss to bottom of spine. Occasional marginal markings to contents. Private ownership. (ar17). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Methuen, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-Library Book with usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding. 1955 re-print edition.

Methuen, London. 1954. First edition.. Hardback.. Black and White illustrations. Very Good in Very Good (–) Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. DJ sun-darkened.

London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a very faintly stained else near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Ashley Dukes from Wyndham Lewis". Dukes was an English playwright, critic, and theatre manager. In 1933, he founded the Mercury Theatre of London and wrote plays that appeared in the London West End and on Broadway. The Ashley Dukes Company was an important interwar promoter of serious drama, and a training ground for actors. He was the husband of Marie Rambert as well as the older brother of British MI6 spy Paul Dukes and the respected pathologist Cuthbert Dukes.

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Centro de Estudos Históricos, Universidade Nova, 2021.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 110 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated, indexes of authors, places of publication, printers and booksellers. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent exhibition catalogue. Alves Dias is one of Portugal's leading historians, and a distinguished bibliophile.***

Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the author’s experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.

Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.

Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.

Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.

Lourenço Marques, [from rear cover] Composto e Impresso na Sociedade de Estudos, 1960.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original pale blue printed wrappers (browned, short tear on spine). Illustrations, maps and tables in text. Some light dampstains. In good condition. Old faint circular stamp on front cover. (2 ll.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 9, (2) pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 8 pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 15 pp., errata slip, (1 l.), 4 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., 2 folding tables, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 ll. plates, printed on both sides, 1 blank l., 1 l.), 7 pp., (8 pp. illustrations, 1 blank p., 1 l.), 13 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., (1 l.), 11 pp. including 3 full-page illustrations, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 24 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 5 pp., (1 l. with bibliography, 2 ll. plates, 1 l.), 17 pp., (1 l.), 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The volume contains four brief… Read More