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Lewis, Wyndham. THE JEWS, Are They Human. George Allen & Unwin: London, 1939.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", red cloth, 111pp, covers a bit rubbed, spine sunned, extremities bumped and fraying, contents toned, foredge of textblock lightly spotted; no dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Jews : Are They Human?. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1939.
Price: US$545.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by George Allen & Unwin, London in 1939 The BOOK is in Very Good+ condition with the publisher's original red cloth boards, lettered to the spine and the front board in black. Some light ghosting to the covers in places with some dust-marking and light spotting to the top edge. Early splaying of the front board. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good+ condition with some fading and toning to the spine. A few marks in places with a small closed tear to the upper spine fold with a little associated loss. The wrapper presents well in the removable Brodart archival cover. This book was previously owned by the Scottish Modernest artist and lawyer Edwin G Lucas with his penned name and date 1939 to the upper front blank end-paper. The title is ironic, as the book conveys the author's revulsion to anti-semitism following his visit to Germany in 1937. An increasingly scarce title. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Jews, are they human?. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1939], 1939.
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 111, [1]; some scattered pale foxing, else very good; publisher's pink-red cloth, pink dustjacket, printed in black, spine faded; booklabel of the BBC broadcaster and later friend of Lewis D. G. Bridson, with marginal pencil marks in his hand and a few page references at the end.First edition, Lewis's first avowedly antifascist text, an argument against antisemitism written after the first draft of The Hitler Cult but published nine months earlier. Lewis had visited Germany, and the Warsaw Ghetto, in 1938, and had been left disturbed. 'Perhaps because he had come to realise just how wrong he had been in his original belief that Hitler himself was not anti-Semitic, Lewis felt himself impelled to speak up on behalf of the Jews as they were becoming increasingly known to the British too much had been written about the Jews on the grounds of common humanity, and far too little on the grounds of common sense. His appeal is, therefore, to the intelligence rather than to humanitarian feeling, though "it is extremely unintelligent, it is as well to remember, not to be humane"' (Bridson, The Filibuster). 'We must give all people of Jewish race a new deal among us. Let us for Heaven's sake make an end of this silly nightmare once and for all, and turn our backs on this dark chapter of our history.'The apparently combative title was in fact a reference to G. J. Renier's The English: are they human (1931), and the work was well-received by the Jewish Chronicle among others, though it remains rife with stereotyping.Pound & Grover A28a; Morrow & Lafourcade A28 Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom