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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. F/VG+. 1955. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF CORNER AND SPINE END WEAR WITH SOME LIGHTRUBBING OF THE SPINE PANEL AND REAR SPINE EDGE. AN EXCELLANT COPY.. Keywords: ESSAY, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

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.

Chicago: HENRY REGNERY, 1955. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/fine.

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.