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Wyndham Lewis. Doom of Youth.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo pp.266.soiling to boards, fraying at the head of spine joint, Grant Select Library sticker on front cover, bumping to the tips of the boards
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
LEWIS, Wyndham. Doom of Youth. Chatto and Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Original pale brown cloth. Armorial bookplate inside front board, stain on and near the fott of the spine, overall general soiling, a good copy lacking the dust jacket. The title is a satirical take on Alec Waugh's *Loom of Youth* (1917); Waugh took legal action against Lewis, resulting in the Doom of Youth being pulped after 550 copies had been sold. Consequently extremely scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. Doom of Youth. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK Edition, stated 1932 Printing with no subsequent dates listed, advertisment for Wyndham Lewis' other works laid in. 266pp, octavo in light tan cloth. cover boards lightly soiled, corners sharp, minor soiling top spine end, tight binding, minor foxing to prelims and a few interior pages, text clean and legible, Good+.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. DOOM OF YOUTH. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Original publisher's ochre-coloured boards with black lettering to the spine. Clean copy with sharp corners and tight binding, 266pp. 8vo. Lewis's feud with the Bloomsbury Group, Roger Fry and by extension, Virginia Woolf is now legend and immortalized in his, Men Without Art.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
LEWIS, Wyndham.. Doom of Youth.. London: Chatto & Windus,, 1932.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: xxix + 266 pp. Very near fine in full cloth with black printing to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Early reader Alex Waugh took exception to how he was portrayed and initiated legal proceedings for libel. The edition was pulped after the sale of only 550 copies. Morrrow & Lafourcade A15b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham.. Doom of Youth. London, Chatto & Windus, 1932., 1932.
Price: US$2563.97 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp.[2], xxix, [1], 266, [2], publisher's tan cloth, white dustjacket printed in black; a very good copy in a good jacket (spine browned, reinforced with Japanese paper at head and foot); bookplate of the BBC broadcaster and friend of Lewis in the 1950s D.G.Bridson, with his pencil markings in the margin throughout (used in writing The Filibuster); 4-page Chatto and Windus catalogue of Lewis's works laid in loose.First English edition, one of Lewis's scarcest works (only 549 copies avoided destruction). Doom of Youth began life as a series of seven articles on youth politics in Time and Tide in JuneJuly 1931, rounded off with a pair by G.K.Chesterton; it was expanded and first published in book form in New York. Of the 1518 copies printed only 411 had sold by the time Chatto and Windus faced two separate suits for libel, from Godfrey Winn and Alec Waugh (author of The Loom of Youth; his brother Evelyn, also satirised, took his charges on the chin). Lewis's publishers were already annoyed with him for his failure to provide them with the sequels to The Childermass, and avoided legal proceedings by withdrawing the book, returning 138 copies to Lewis and pulping 968. It was the last book he published with Chatto. 1932 was to prove an annus horribilis for Lewis, this the first of three books to be withdrawn from the market. See Bridson, The Filibuster, 'Thou Hast Robbed Me of My Youth', pp.120139. Pound & Grover A15b; Morrow & Lafourcade A15b. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. Doom of Youth.. London Chatto & Windus, 1932.
Price: US$2722.50 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo; publisher's cloth with minor rubbing, off-white dust-jacket printed in black, slight chipping near spine ends and corners, but overall a very good example. A very good copy of a scarce Wyndham Lewis first edition in the original dust-jacket. This was the only work by Wyndham Lewis to be published by Chatto & Windus, as the author was angry with them after they withdrew the book from circulation due to pressure brought to bear by solicitors for Alec Waugh, who considered the book a libellous attack on himself and his character. As a result of this threat almost a thousand copies of the book from the original print-run of 1518 were pulped by the publishers, ensuring its relative scarcity. Morrow & Lafourcade A15b; Pound & Grover A15b
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Lewis, Wyndham. Doom Of Youth. Chatto and Windus, 1932.
Price: US$3204.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Sole UK Printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1932. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Some toning to the spine and edges. Light pushing with a few nicks at the spine ends. A little offsetting with toning to the text-block. The pages remain clean and there are no inscriptions or erasures. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Toning to the spine and the edges. A few nicks with mild edge wear. A closed tear to the front upper spine fold. The wrapper looks very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. 'The book was withdrawn following demands by the solicitors of Alec Waugh and Godfrey Winn, who come under sustained attack beginning in Chapter VI. 549 copies, which had already been sold (and of which this must be one) and the publisher's office copy are all that survived, the remainder being pulped by the publisher. The fall-out from this episode meant that this was the last book Lewis published with Chatto & Windus (Morrow & Lafourcade/Pound & Grover A15b). Accompanied by the loose 4 page publisher's booklet detailing 'The works of Wyndham Lewis'. Scarce and collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham. Doom of Youth. Chatto and Windus, London, 1932.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A little soiling to the boards, else near fine in a spine-toned, good or better dustwrapper with a few short tears and shallow loss at the spine ends. Originally suppressed due to a lawsuit brought by Alec Waugh who felt he had been maligned in the book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.