Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by WYNDHAM LEWIS; 626pp. Large folio green library cloth, spine gilt,
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Wyndham Lewis. The Apes Of God. Arthur Press, 1930.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Scarce/ Rare Proof Copy. Loosely bound with some detached pages. Cloth boards separating from the main spine binding but could be easily repaired. Comments in pencil with dedication to Sir Nicholas and Lady Watterhouse.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$139.04 + shipping
Description: "Enemy Pamphlets No. 1" 4to., orig. wrappers designed by Lewis, (64)pp. Name, two pieces of tape on the inner hinges of both upper and lower wrappers, slight creasing but still a very good copy. Largely written by Lewis and produced to promote The Apes of God and includes printed letters "concerning The Apes of God" by other writers such as Yeats, Wells and Augustus John.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Wyndham Lewis. The Apes of God. The Arthur Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Number 332 of 750 copies signed by Wyndham Lewis. Quite a few marks to boards. Spine of cover is darkened. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page.
Seller: RZabasBooks, Toronto, ON, Canada
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Apes of God.. London The Arthur Press, 1930.
Price: US$217.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, 4to., number 413 of 750 copies signed by the author, decorations by the author, some foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket designed by Wyndham Lewis, lacking whole of title section on spine and top-edge of lower panel, but upper panel and inner flaps intact and unmolested. "Originally part of the 'five hundred thousand word book, The Man of the World' (so-called in a letter to Ezra Pound, April 29, 1925, Yale), The Apes of God was written intermittently from 1922-1930. Two passages were published in earlier draft form in The Criterion, with the help of T.S. Eliot". (Morrow & Lafourcade, A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis) Morrow & Lafourcade A12a
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.25 + shipping
Description: 10 x 7.5", one page printed on both sides, minor finger soiling and toning, one corner creased else a nice copy of this very SCARCE broadsheet, reproducing a Daily Press article from September 4, 1930 in which Wyndham Lewis reacts to a small classified ad offering a pair of his paintings for sale by the square foot. According to Morrow and Lafoucade (A12c), the original ad was placed by a Captain Wyndham, who thought he had been an object of satire in Lewis' THE APE OF THE GOD. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Apes of God (Signed Limited Edition). The Arthur Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Short, stout clothbound 4to. 625 pp. Illustrated by Lewis as well. A satire. This is copy 173 of 750 copies printed thus and SIGNED by Lewis. Lacking the original dustwrapper. Some expected cloth soiling and minor stains to page edges. A sound very good copy overall. A large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Apes of God. The Arthur Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Quarto. 625pp. Tan cloth boards only, lacking original dustwrapper. Very good copy lacking front free endpaper with spots along the spine and corners gently bumped, still remarkable sound with tight binding. One of 750 copies Signed and numbered by the author; this is copy 271. A satire of London's literary and art scene in the time after the first world war and considered by some Lewis's book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. THE APES OF GOD. The Arthur Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$336.00 + shipping
Description: Small 4to, pp. 625, bound in some soiled tan cloth, a very good tight copy. Bookplate on front pastedown. Issued by subscription. Morrow & Lafourcade A12a; Pound & Grover A11a. from Wikipedia: "The Apes of God is a 1930 novel by the British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis. It is a satire of London's contemporary literary and artistic scene.The novel is set in 1926, leading up to the General Strike in May. It has an episodic structure, following a young simpleton called Dan Boleyn from one encounter with the literati to another. Dan follows the directions of an infatuated sixty-year-old albino, Horace Zagreus, who believes him to be a genius. The 'Apes of God' that he meets are imitators of true creators; they are characterised as "prosperous mountebanks who alternately imitate and mock at and traduce those figures they at once admire and hate." (p. 123) Zagreus is himself only the imitator of another character, Pierpoint, who appears to be the origin of all the ideas that circulate in the society depicted in the novel. Pierpoint, though often mentioned and often maligned, never appears in the novel. He is described as 'a painter turned philosopher' (p. 129), a description that could be applied to Lewis himself (his 1927 book, Time and Western Man, contains a great deal of philosophical arguments)" First Edition, one of 750 (# 92) signed by the author.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Apes of God. The Arthur Press, 1930.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First and last few leaves lightly foxed, cloth and edges moderately foxed, bookplate, very good in very good dust jacket with some soiling, spine darkened a shade and folds soft with a few tape reinforcements to verso, in mylar cover. First edition, number 507 of 750 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. APES OF GOD. Arthur Press, GB, 1930.
Price: US$389.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 298/750 signed copies. Book is in very good plus (or better) condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. A little darkened to spine. Slight rubbed patch over W of WYNDHAM on spine. In loose polythene protector. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 2600g. Photographs on request.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Apes Of God.. London: The Arthur Press, 1930., 1930.
Price: US$444.00 + shipping
Description: large 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 625, [1]. cloth. First Edition, Limited to 750 copies, this out of series (unnumbered & unsigned).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Lewis, Wyndham. Apes of God. The Arthur Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good limited edition book in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the limited edition page. This is #453 of 750, issued for subscription only. Tan cloth covered boards with blue lettering and graphics on spine. Book is divided into eight parts, each head by a b&w illustration by the author. 625 pps of a heavily quality. Boards are soiled and a bit grubby overall. Spine is sunned and also soiled. External page edges are age- and also probably soil/dust darkened. Previous owner's bookplate on the front paste down. Light smudges and stains around the edges to end papers. Gutter is cracked at pp. 224-225. Small bookseller's label on the back paste-down. Text pages are internally clean. This is a very heavy volume, text block is sound in spite of gutter crack. Dust jacket is soiled overall and with stains on the spine and back jacket panel. Spine is heavily sunned, somewhat lesser on the extremities. Spine and fore-edge folds are creased and rubbed; the back spine fold has a 5/8" by 3/8" loss. Spine has a vertical crease down the center; there are a number of scuffs and vertical scratches on the spine as well as chips, rubs and creases along the edges at head and tail. Head of spine has several closed vertical tears including 1" in the center, 5/8" at the back corner, and 3/8" toward the front corner. Shallow horizontal creasing along the upper edges, along with rubs and closed vertical tear on the back panel of 3/8". The lower front right fore-edge corner has loss of 3/8" by up to 1/2". The other three fore-edge corners are rubbed and with loss of 1/4 or less. Inside flaps are not clipped. No price is shown, likely because this was issued by subscription. Please use close-up options for best photos inspection and in support of condition descriptions; additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. Apes of God. The Arthur Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Limited issue, copy #575 of 750 copies signed by Wyndham Lewis. Very Good with cloth lightly stained, toned at spine, light dampstain to edge of page block. Tape ghosts front free end paper, foxing to prelims and edge of page block. In a Good+ dust jacket illustrated by the author, which is dampstained along bottom edge heaviest at rear panel, dust soiled, lightly worn and dust soiled, though largely complete.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Apes of God. London: The Arthur Press, 1930.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 358 of 750 copies signed by the author, large 8vo, (iv), 625, (1) pp. Some mild foxing at the beginning and end. Cloth, d.w. with faint staining to the spine and some minor soiling, overall a remarkably well preserved copy.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Apes of God.. London The Arthur Press, 1930.
Price: US$786.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the author; 4to; decorations by the author, some foxing; original peach cloth, tiles to spine in blue, with the dust jacket designed by Wyndham Lewis; minor spotting early and late but a superb copy in the very lightly marked dust jacket. 'Originally part of the "five hundred thousand word book, The Man of the World" (so-called in a letter to Ezra Pound, April 29, 1925, Yale), The Apes of God was written intermittently from 1922-1930. Two passages were published in earlier draft form in The Criterion, with the help of T.S. Eliot' (Morrow & Lafourcade, A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis). Morrow & Lafourcade A12a
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Apes of God.. The Arthur Press, London., 1930.
Price: US$994.53 + shipping
Description: First edition. Royal octavo. 625 pages. Black and white designs by the author.One of 750 copies numbered and signed by the author.Sporadic foxing. Bottom corner of rear cover bumped. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper designed by the author. A lovely copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom