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Wyndham Lewis. The Childermass. Chatto & Windus, 1928.
Price: US$63.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellow cloth boards with simple red border decoration and red titles to spine. Light surface and edge wear. Spine discoloured and slightly frayed to ends. Light tan to edge of page block. Small neat name/date inscription to front end-paper, otherwise unmarked.
Seller: Zebra Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass Section I.. London: Chatto And Windus, 1928., 1928.
Price: US$111.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 322. cloth (half-inch gouge in rear joint, spine ends frayed, light soiling to covers). dw. (chips in wr. spine). First Trade Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Wyndham Lewis. The Childermass: Section I [all published]. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 322 pp. Printed dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with decorative trim and spine lettering in red. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a long split to front joint tracing half of the length of the spine; general rubbing and toning. Boards lightly soiled; light wear to edges; front joint slightly collapsed. Binding is sound. Stamp of the Hunterdon County Art Center of Clinton, New Jersey to front pastedown and title page. Ownership inscription of "H. Ford" to front free endpaper, and interior else unmarked. Very Good.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Childermass - Section 1. Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited First UK Edition, stated 1928 Printing with no subsequent dates listed, #88 out of 225cc, Signed by Wyndham Lewis. 322pp, octavo in yellow cloth. cover boards mildly worn, fading and moderate wear to book spine, minor lean to book yet binding remains strong, toning to endpapers, faint foxing to first and last few prelims, text clean throughout, Very Good. #88 out of 225cc, Signed by author.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. THE CHILDERMASS: Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1/225 copies (this #144) signed by the author. 8vo. (8), 322 pp. Original yellow buckram (some soiling), gilt spine title. Scattered light foxing, offset to endpapers, owner's name on front endpaper, else very good.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. THE CHILDERMASS: Section I. London: Chatto and Windus., 1928.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, complete with original dustwrapper. Publisher's original yellow cloth with red-patterned trim and red titles to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm but with some rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and some darkening to the top edge of the upper board. The contents, with some spotting to the front endpaper, a faint pencil inscription to the front pastedown, and some offsetting to the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. The upper text block edge is somewhat dusty. Publisher's original bookmark inside. The dustwapper, with darkening to the spine and a small tear to the upper tip, spotting to the dust flaps, and some bumping to the edges, is otherwise in good condition. A highly experimental and radical work which Frederic Jameson, in his book Fables of Aggression, dubbed "the supreme realization of what has to be called theological science fiction". (Jameson, Frederic: Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. pg. 6) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
WYNDHAM LEWIS. THE CHILDERMASS , SCTION 1. CHATTO AND WINDUS, LONDON, 1928.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Special Edition of THE CHILDERMASS : SECTION 1 , there have printed 225 copies for sale ,and 6 for private distribution , this is no 169. 8vo. Pp, [8] 322, signed ltd edition . Original yellow cloth covered boards , spine faded with title in gold lettering , front has some marks and fading ,small rip on front , front free end paper and rear has offsetting .there is a certain amount of foxing through out, This is a rare edition and difficult to find.
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 322 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. Remnant of tiny bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; else better than very good in an attractive, price-clipped jacket with some slight sunning to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957). The childermass : Section 1. London : Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Price: US$213.98 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 322 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Lewis, Percy Wyndham. Purgatory ; Fiction. Genre: Zoology. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass: Section 1.. Chatto and Windus, London., 1928.
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 322. Buckram covers. Top edge gilt.One of 231 numbered copies signed by the author.Free endpapers slightly tanned. Very good in good, chipped and dusty dustwrapper repaired on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
WYNDHAM LEWIS.. The Childermass. Section I.. Chatto and Windus., London, 1928.
Price: US$228.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original gilt-lettered yellow buckram. One of 225 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis. Some scattered light foxing; minor browning to endsheets;
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957). The childermass : Section 1. London : Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 322 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Lewis, Percy Wyndham. Purgatory ; Fiction. Genre: Zoology. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis (Wyndham).. The Childermass: Section I. Chatto and Windus,, 1928.
Price: US$247.09 + shipping
Description: Preliminaries and end leaves very slightly darkened and foxed, otherwise a very nice copy in slightly chipped and rubbed dust-wrapper that is a little dust-soiled
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 322 pp. 8vo, publisher's yellow buckram in dust jacket. First limited edition; No. 212 of 225 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis. Some scattered light foxing; minor browning to endsheets; one corner bumped; else a very nice copy. The jacket has a few short tears, and the spine is lightly sunned with minor soiling.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS, WYNDHAM.. The Childermass: Section 1. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, limited issue, one of 225 numbered copies signed by Lewis. Some foxing, very good plus in a very good, chipped dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full yellow buckram on heavy boards. Number 122 of only 255 copies so issued. Signed underneath the number by the author in black ink. Very good book without dust jacket. A tight clean copy nevertheless, with a sunned spine. Gilt titling has therefore faded a bit. Soft corners and a bit foxed inside, as is usual. The text block is gilt on the trimmed top edge, other edges are handsomely ragged. Very much a collectable despite my description. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section I.. London Chatto & Windus, 1928.
Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, 'Special Edition', number 142 of 225 copies signed by the author; 8vo; browning to free endpapers; publisher's yellow buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut, some minor marking, spine slightly rolled. A very good example of the special limited edition of the first part of Wyndham Lewis' trilogy The Human Age, published simultaneously with an ordinary edition of 2500 copies (of which 1000 were destroyed by the publisher). The second & third parts, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, were not published until 1955, in response to a request from the BBC for Wyndham Lewis to complete the work for broadcast. Morrow & Lafourcade A10a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$279.85 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; original yellow buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 225 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 219).
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham. CHILDERMASS: SECTION I. LONDON, CHATTO, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SCARCE IN DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 322 pp. 8vo, publisher's yellow buckram in dust jacket. First limited edition; No. 124 of 225 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis. Light foxing to the fore-edge and a very few scattered pages, free endpapers at front and rear lightly tanned; slight use to cloth; tight and sound in a lightly dust-soiled jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Childermass Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Yellow cloth stamped in red. Fine copy in very slightly spine-toned else about fine dust jacket. There were 2500 copies of the trade issue printed; 1000 sets of sheets were destroyed in 1946 when the title was recalled: *Morrow* A10b. The first volume in Lewis's "The Human Age" trilogy, a Dantesque voyage through the afterlife by two Englishmen killed in the war. A very nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section 1.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the first book in Lewis's epic trilogy The Human Age, considered by the literary critic Frederic Jameson as "the supreme realization of what has to be called theological science fiction" (Jameson, p. 6). Childermass is the author's most experimental work, and "a veritable summa of [his] narrative modernism" (ibid.). The book follows the adventures of Sattersthwaite and Pullman, two Englishmen killed in the Great War, as they travel through a Dantesque afterlife while awaiting to ascend to The Magnetic City. Chatto & Windus paid Lewis a £200 advance for the complete Childermass, but his failure to produce volumes II and III resulted in a lawsuit. The contract was eventually transferred to Methuen, and the complete trilogy was not published until 1955, when Methuen published Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta in a single volume. Collectively, these three books constitute Lewis's longest single fictive work, which was dramatized for the BBC Third Programme in 1955. Morrow & Lafourcade A10a. Fredric Jameson, Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist, 1981. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in red, red saw-tooth border to covers, top edge yellow, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a reddish-brown solander box. Spine toned, extremities a little rubbed, faint foxing to edges and outer leaves, light offsetting to blanks, contents clean. A very good copy indeed, sharp and fresh in very good jacket, a little rubbed, spine panel toned, faint foxing to verso and flaps, a few minor nicks and couple of short tears, unclipped.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Lewis, Wyndham. THE CHILDERMASS. Section 1. Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1928 Chatto and Windus first printing. Very Good copy in DJ. Book is VG with strong hinges and lightly toned, bit of foxing, dusty top and bottom edges. DJ is VG with light edgewear and some foxing. Superior copy.
Seller: Jerry Prosser, Bookseller, Des Moines, IA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Childermass: Section I.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large 8vo, yellow cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Limited First Edition. Fine. One of 225 specially bound signed copies. End-leaves browned, as usual, otherwise fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section 1.. London: Chatto and Windus, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 143 of 231 copies signed by the author. The Childermass was the first book in Lewis's epic trilogy, "the supreme realization of what has to be called theological science fiction" (Jameson, p. 6). This is the author's most experimental work and "a veritable summa of [his] narrative modernism" (ibid.). It was published simultaneously with the trade edition. Chatto & Windus paid Lewis a £200 advance for the complete series but his failure to produce sections 2 and 3 resulted in a lawsuit. The contract was eventually transferred to Methuen, who published Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta in a single volume in 1955. Collectively, these three books came to be titled The Human Age, and they constitute Lewis's longest single fictive work. Morrow & Lafourcade A10a. Fredric Jameson, Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist, 1981. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered and border in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Spine cocked and toned, corners bumped, offsetting to endpapers: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section I.. London Chatto & Windus, 1928.
Price: US$423.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, 'Special Edition', number 176 of 225 copies signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's yellow buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut, minor browning to endpapers as usual, spine gently rolled and a just a trace of fading. An unusually fresh copy. A very good example of the special limited edition of the first part of Wyndham Lewis' trilogy The Human Age, published simultaneously with an ordinary edition of 2500 copies (of which 1000 were destroyed by the publisher). The second & third parts, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, were not published until 1955, in response to a request from the BBC for Wyndham Lewis to complete the work for broadcast. Morrow & Lafourcade A10a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Childermass . Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in white decorative dust jacket printed in red and black; [6],322pp. Light wear to jacket and cloth extremities, jacket spine a bit toned, light foxing to both panels and textblock edges, else Very Good or better. First novel in a series of six "theological science fiction" works (cf. David Ayers and Adam Hanna, Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (1992) p. 99), published between 1928 and 1955.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Childermass Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, special issue. Yellow buckram stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in very good dust jacket, a bit soiled and with small chips at spine extremities. Copy number 150 of 225 numbered copies Signed by Wyndham Lewis. The first volume in Lewis's "The Human Age" trilogy, a Dantesque voyage through the afterlife by two Englishmen killed in the war.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Childermass: Section I.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 185 of 225 copies, signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow cloth. Fine in stained dust jacket First edition, no. 185 of 225 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$544.50 + shipping
Description: First editions; 2 vols, 8vo; publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, some minor chips & tears, first with some spotting and dust-soiling. Wyndham Lewis' trilogy The Human Age, comprising The Childermass (1928), one of 2500 trade copies of which 1000 were destroyed by the publisher, and Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta, which were published together in 1955, in response to a request from the BBC for Wyndham Lewis to complete the work for broadcast purposes, on the condition that the radio dramatisation was given precedence. Morrow & Lafourcade A10b & A40.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass. Section I.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1928.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 322 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. Tiny bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; else a very good copy with some slight wear to the extremities of the spine. The dust jacket has a 1" tape stain at the bottom of the spine; otherwise a very good example with light tanning to the spine. Inscribed and signed by Wyndham Lewis on the front free enpaper; St. Louis, 1944.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis (Wyndham). The Childermass. Section I.. Chatto & Windus, 1928.
Price: US$1590.03 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. [v], 322, crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, backstrip lettering and border to both boards in red, the cloth faintly spotted with some light soiling, top edge yellow, tail edge roughtrimmed, browning to initial and terminal blank, good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Richard Aldington, from Wyndham Lewis, July 1928'; a notable association copy, dating from a time when Aldington, back in London, was hoping to secure some TLS review-work from Lewis - the latter mooted a collaboration between the two, which did not transpire, but they exchanged books (Lewis received Aldington's 'A Fool i' the Forest' in return). The second and third sections, though anticipated later the same year in a printed note on the verso of the half-title, were issued under the titles 'Monstre Gai' and 'Malign Fiesta' in 1955. (Morrow & Lafourcade A10b: Pound & Grover A9a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Childermass Section 1.. London, Chatto & Windus, 1928., 1928.
Price: US$3180.06 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. [8], 322; a fine copy in the publisher's yellow cloth, top edge gilt, no dustjacket; bookplate of Lewis's friend, the BBC broadcaster D. G. Bridson, with scattered marginal notes in pencil for his adaptation for radio, especially at the end; laid in loose are two cuttings of promotional articles by Bridson about the forthcoming broadcasts of The Human Age in 1955, an index of the book in Bridson's hand, and a leaf of the broadcast typescript.First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies of the special edition, signed by Lewis, additionally inscribed, in c. 1951, 'To Geoffrey Bridson (through whom I am enabled to finish this book) deepest thanks and friendliest greetings / Wyndham Lewis'. 'In 1921 Lewis had embarked on another ambitious project, a Rabelaisian fictional anatomy of postwar Britain.' The first portion 'finally and circuitously achieved publication at the end of the decade: The Childermass (1928), a work of theological science fiction set in an encampment of the dead on the banks of the River Styx' (Trotter). When D. G. Bridson first read The Childermass in 1932, he had concluded that 'the setting of the drama is only to be seen convincingly in the imagination. It was that fact, when I reread The Childermass in 1950, that had assured me it would make magnificent radio'. The radio production of 1951 was the genesis of his friendship with Lewis, and their collaboration in turn enabled Lewis to finish the remaining two parts of what became The Human Age, which were funded by the BBC and written specifically with broadcast in mind.The special edition and the ordinary edition (2500 copies, of which 1000 were eventually destroyed) were published simultaneously, on 21 June 1928. Lewis had in fact contracted with Chatto and Windus to finish the trilogy in 1928. They sued him for breach of contract in 1932, ending his association with the firm. Pound & Grover A9b; Morrow & Lafourcade A1 0a. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom