The Ideal Giant. The Code of a Herdsman. Cantelman's Spring-Mate.
by LEWIS, Wyndham
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Privately printed for the London Office of the Little Review, 1917. . First edition, sole impression; 8vo; publisher's printed stapled self-wrappers string-tied into original cloth-backed pictorial board folder, cover illustration after design by Lewis, boards with dust soiling, chipped corners, and scattered staining; staples rusted.
First edition of Lewis's first separate literary book, (preceded by Timon of Athens, a portfolio of illustrations). Contains two stories which had previously appeared in the Little Review. Printed in an edition of approximately 200 copies, though Pound and Grover speculate that perhaps only 50 copies of the folder were produced but that more copies of the pamphlet were printed.
Morrow and Lafourcade A2; Pound and Grover A1.
First edition of Lewis's first separate literary book, (preceded by Timon of Athens, a portfolio of illustrations). Contains two stories which had previously appeared in the Little Review. Printed in an edition of approximately 200 copies, though Pound and Grover speculate that perhaps only 50 copies of the folder were produced but that more copies of the pamphlet were printed.
Morrow and Lafourcade A2; Pound and Grover A1.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108701
- Title
- The Ideal Giant. The Code of a Herdsman. Cantelman's Spring-Mate.
- Author
- LEWIS, Wyndham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Privately printed for the London Office of the Little Review, 1917.
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