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LEWIS Wyndham.. The Diabolical Principle and the Dithyrambic Spectator.. , 1931.
Price: US$30.11 + shipping
Description: London: Chatto & Windus 1931. 8vo. Or. cl. slightly faded spine. XIV244pp. With title-vign. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Lewis, Wyndham. Diabolical Principle and the Dithyrambic Spectator. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [xiv], 242 pp. Cloth in dustwrapper, unclipped, edgewear, good. (74276).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Red cloth. pp.[ii] (blank), xiv, 244. Slightly spotted to the edges, the upper board splashed at its lower corner, the lower board somewhat scratched and creased to the cloth, the boards moderately bumped to the corners and with a short, superficial split at the lower joint, the front pastedown scuffed presumably from a bookplate removal, the rear free endpaper with a neat 'B' or '13' in red pencil, and the prelims/outer leaves spotted, but probably presenting better than it sounds. This copy has been signed by the author and has the attractive bookplate of Lewis collector Andrew Murray.
Seller: Test Centre Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue in red buckram and with gilt lettering on the spine. Octavo. 242 pages. Fine in very good indeed, slightly creased dustwrapper with no fading at all to the red parts. A lovely bright copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Lewis (Wyndham). The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator.. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, title-vignette designed by the author, a few leaves with top corner turned down, pp. xiv, 243, crown 8vo, original red cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, top corner of upper board rather knocked, dustjacket with Lewis design, some internal repair to chipping with brown paper,including section of loss at foot of rear panel, backstrip panel darkened, good. Signed by the author on the title-page, and inscribed by him - designating it 'J. Gawsworth's copy'. Gawsworth was then making his first movements in literary circles, as a protégé of Lewis's sometime verbal sparring partner Edith Sitwell, and would the following year put down the marker of a critical study (and bibliography) of Lewis - 'Apes, Japes and Hitlerism'. (Morrow & Lafourcade A14(1))
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom