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Wyndham Lewis. Paleface: The Philosophy of the Melting-Pot. Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ. Boards are clean with little wear. Ex libris sticker and prev owners name to endpaper. Contents are age toned and there are foxing patches to title page and other prelim pages. Scarce title.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Lewis, Wyndham. Paleface: the Philosophy of the "Melting Pot". Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: White cloth spine with black cloth boards. Cloth is grubby, corners bumped and exposed. Couple of minor spine breaks; pages secure. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. Paleface, the Philosophy of the 'Melting Pot'. Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK Edition, stated 1929 Printing with no subsequent dates listed. 304pp, octavo in black cloth boards over white cloth spine. cover boards mildly soiled, mild discoloration to spine, 1" tear to top front backstrip, binding remains strong, owner name, minor foxing to prelims and a few interior pages, text clean and legible, Good.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham:. Paleface The Philosophy of the 'Melting-pot'. London Chatto and Windus, 1929.
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book, first edition , 303 pages no dustjacket. Lewis's theories on colour and race. ever controversial subjects. Includes publishers promotional flyer. A very Good copy with white velum? spine and black boards. Previous owners name and date and light foxing. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Lewis, Wyndham. Paleface: The Philosophy of the "Melting-Pot". Chatto & Windus, London, 1929.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard to find, first edition bound in black and white cloth, no dust jacket. Boards are lightly rubbed along edges with bumps to front and rear along leading edge. Spine is faintly marked and endpapers are lightly tanned. 4 page publisher's promotional flyer with reviews by Leonard Woolf and Rebecca West amongst others is laid-in. Creases and edgewear to the flyer. Spine is tight and, apart from small marks in margins of pages 46 and 47, the pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. Paleface. The Philosophy of the 'Melting-Pot'.. London Chatto & Windus, 1929.
Price: US$701.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, foxing throughout, original two-tone black & white cloth, dust-jacket with design by Lewis, browned at spine with loss to head & tail, some chips to fore-corners and top-edge of upper panel. An adaptation of the essay that originally appeared in The Enemy, No.2, examining the presence and role of "race-consciousness" in contemporary literature and poetry. In the work Wyndham Lewis contextualises western man's innate tendency for self-destruction, particularly in light of the First World War, and considers the "melting pot" model that America aspires to, a subject he addresses again in his America and Cosmic Man (1948). Morrow & Lafourcade A11; Pound & Grover A10a
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus, London in 1929. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. A hint of pushing at the lower spine tip and a very light bump to the lower rear edge. Light toning to the text-block and a little offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The fragile paper WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition. Light toning to the spine and a hint of edge-wear. A neat tape repair to the verso of a small closed tear to the upper front edge. The wrapper artwork by Wyndham Lewis looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Loosely inserted is the 4 page publisher's promotional flyer with reviews by Leonard Woolf and Rebecca West amongst others. A classic Wyndham Lewis title which is increasingly elusive and more-so in such exceptional condition. By far, the nicest copy of this title that we have handled to date. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom