[Signed contract for:] The Hitler Cult.

Lewis (Wyndham)

[Signed contract for:] The Hitler Cult.

Description: folded sheet of blue paper printed on all sides with some manuscript amendments made by Lewis (initialled by him), signed at foot by author and W.G. Taylor (on behalf of publishers), typed filing label pasted to back, pp. [4], folio, in publisher's original card folder (labelled with the caveat '(NOT D B Wyndham Lewis)', alongside photocopied sheet with simultaneous reply to Lewis bibliographers Pound and Morrow regarding various points, very good

Publication Details: J.M. Dent, 1939

Notes: An interesting document from the publishers' files: the clause deleted by Wyndham Lewis relates to the 'option of publishing the Author's next work' - given the author's preternatural ability to make enemies, there is a measure of self-awareness, but also self-protection, in Lewis's revision here.

Bibliography: (printed book is Morrow & Lafourcade A30; Pound & Grover A30a)