Price: £500
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1931
Stock Number: 61526
Lewis (Wyndham)
The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator.
Description: FIRST EDITION, title-vignette designed by the author, a few leaves with top corner turned down, pp. xiv, 243, crown 8vo, original red cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, top corner of upper board rather knocked, dustjacket with Lewis design, some internal repair to chipping with brown paper,including section of loss at foot of rear panel, backstrip panel darkened, good
Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Notes: Signed by the author on the title-page, and inscribed by him - designating it 'J. Gawsworth's copy'. Gawsworth was then making his first movements in literary circles, as a protégé of Lewis's sometime verbal sparring partner Edith Sitwell, and would the following year put down the marker of a critical study (and bibliography) of Lewis - 'Apes, Japes and Hitlerism'.
Bibliography: (Morrow & Lafourcade A14(1))
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