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Lewis, Wyndham. The Wild Body - A Soldier Of Humour And Other Stories. Chatto & Windus, 1927.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small name inscription on free front endpaper and light foxing to a few pages. All else very clean inside. The red cloth boards are firm with some minor edge wear, slightly faded spine and a few small light marks.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 295 [1 + 4, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's red cloth (lacking jacket). First edition. Spine slightly sunned; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. vii, 295 pp. + [4] pp. ads. Original first issue orange cloth, top edge orange. Some spinal darkening and cloth dust soiling, names front free endpaper else very good.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humor and Other Stories. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages; 1st state binding (of 1500 copies) with orange cloth and orange topstain. Trace toning/sunning to spine and dust spotting to front edge of page block. Snugly bound and clean. No marks. Top stain just a little faded. VG+
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Wild Body. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Orange cloth titled in gilt, orange topstain. First edition. Cloth edges frayed, the board edges are nibbled, PO name, front hinge a bit loose. The DJ in mylar has split into two pieces along gutter, and is toned, chipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Wild Body, a Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, stated 1927 Printing with no subsequent dates listed, Review Copy with ephemera laid in. 295pp, smaller octavo in orange cloth. cover boards lightly dusty but clean, light foxing to endpapers, tight binding, text clean throughout, Very Good+; dj spine lightly toned, mild wear to dj edges, covers light soiled and foxed, no major tears, not price-clipped, Good+.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. THE WILD BODY. , 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: LEWIS, Wyndham. THE WILD BODY. A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First trade edition. vii, 296pp., + 4pp. ads. 8vo., orange cloth, titled in gilt to spine, double rule border blind-stamped around the edges of the upper and lower boards, top edge stained orange. Internally clean, but showing light soil to top and fore edges, with a small ink stain at the top edge. The spine has darkened and the cloth shows moderate overall soil. Ink ownership to ffep. A solid copy. (Morrow & Lafourcade A9b).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red cloth, black lettering, dust jacket clipped, 294 pp first edition dj worn on the edges covers worn on the edges and a puncture hole from page 255 to the rear cover Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
WYNDHAM, Lewis. The Wild Body: Soldier of Humor And Other Stories. Chatto and Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First impression. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; orange topstain; 295pp+ ads.; offsetting inside front cover; light foxing to textblock; spine ends pushed; topstain faded; Very Good+, lacking the dustkjacket. The Wild Body is a series of short stories by Wyndham Lewis that appeared in English and American publications between 1917 and 1922. Nine short stories comprise a series that follows the narrator Ker-Orr (the projected persona of Lewis himself) in his adventures around Brittany. (from Wikipedia).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First impression of the true first edition, published in 1927. This copy is in the first state orange cloth gilt binding (one of 1,500 copies thus). The book was re-issued in The Centaur Library later the same year in red boards with black titles. ***Near fine in orange cloth-covered boards with gilt tiles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards have some marks and wear commensurate with handling over the last 95 years, but are generally bright and clean. Edges just slightly rubbed. The spine colour is slightly faded. Head and tail of spine and corner tips slightly creased. No tears to the fragile cloth covering. The top edge of the page block is stained orange by the publisher to match the boards and is quite clean. No foxing to the page block edges. There is a very slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally the book is also near fine, with no inscriptions or annotations. No foxing or offsetting - the pages are clean. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***200mm x130mm. 295 pages plus a four-page Publisher's Catalogue at the back of the book. ***'"The Wild Body" is a series of short stories by Wyndham Lewis that appeared in English and American publications between 1917 and 1922. Nine short stories comprise a series that follows the narrator Ker-Orr (the projected persona of Lewis himself) in his adventures around Brittany. The first of the series, A Soldier of Good Humour, first appeared in the December 1917 and January 1918 editions of American Literary publication The Little Review. Other stories in the collection are: Beau Sejour, The Cornac and His Wife, The Death of the Ankou, Franciscan Adventures, Brotcotnaz, Inferior Religions and The Meaning of the Wild Body. A later story, Sigismund, was written in 1922 and appeared in Arts and Letters. The final story is You Broke My Dream also written in 1922. The collected short stories were published in a single edition by Chatto & Windus of London in 1927, and Harcourt Brace of New York in 1928.' ***'Wyndham Lewis helped pioneer Vorticism, a modernist movement in British art and poetry in the early 20th century and founded the Rebel Art Centre in 1914. Many British artists that had allied themselves with Lewis and the vortices movement attended the centre which was opposed to the Italian futurists movement. American literary agitator Ezra Pound also aligned himself to Lewis's cause. Lewis objected to the futurist celebration of the machine age and was repelled by vague and indistinct form preferring structural clarity which is to be found in the vivid character descriptions, powerful metaphors and crystal-clear imagery of The Wild Body. He hoped Vorticism would help depict rapidly changing social constructs of modern life. Aligned with Ezra Pound, Lewis was editor, designer and author of the art manifesto magazine Blast that was at the centre of the Vorticism movement. His aim along with the likes of Pound, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot was to stand for a daring and original engagement of art and literature. "The Wild Body" represents an evolution of the writing ability of Wyndham Lewis and a literary crystallising of the vorticist movement in modernist literature depicting the "itinerant acrobats and assorted eccentrics he encountered during his travels in Brittany" in the opening decades of the 20th century and decanting the heady draught of modernism at its zenith moment.' (Wiki) ***A first impression of the true first edition of "The Wild Body" by Vorticist writer Wyndham Lewis. A nicely preserved copy of this pre-war first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Lewis (Wyndham). The Wild Body.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, Centaur Library issue. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6. The Centaur Library issue of these stories from the vector of vorticism Wyndham Lewis, printed from the first edition sheets but in different binding, and the series jacket design by the graphic artist Edward Bawden (as opposed to the boring typographic one on the first issue). A little light foxing; cloth with minor sunning to spine ends; jacket toned and chipped at spine, some rubbing.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Lewis, Wyndham. The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humour and other stories. Chatto and Windus, 1927.
Price: US$122.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket has soiling, slight foxing, slight edgewear, spine browned.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Wyndham. The Wild Body Containing A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. Chatto, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The jacket is marked and a bit torn - very little paper loss. One crossed through ownership inscription and a few notations. Some mild foxing. Netting just visible but the binding is sound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue binding in orange cloth with gilt stamping on spine. A touch of soiling on the boards, near fine copy in slight;ly soiled near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Wild Body.. London, Chatto & Windus, 1927., 1927.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 294, [2], [4, ads]; publisher's orange cloth, cream dust-jacket printed in red and black; a very good copy in a very good jacket (spine slightly soiled); ownership signature 'A. T. Judge'(?); bookplate of Lewis's friend, the BBC broadcaster D. G. Bridson.First trade edition, first issue binding; there was also a special edition of 85 signed copies. A collection, in a much reworked form, of some early sketches written in Brittany, some of which had been published in 1909. Pound & Grover A8a; Morrow & Lafourcade A9b. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Wyndham Lewis. The Wild Body. A Soldier of Humour and other Stories. Chatto & Windus, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Good firm copy of this signed limited edition. Number 62 of 79. Quarter cloth and marbled boards. Rubbing to the top 1 inch of the front board and a bit on the bottom. Some foxing to the first endpaper and limitation page. 295pp 8vo.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 295 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Top edge a little dusty; else a bright copy in an unchipped jacket with very slight browning to the spine. Signed by Wyndham Lewis on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 295 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth, expertly recased. First edition. A good to very good copy. The spine is slightly faded. Inscribed and signed by Wyndham Lewis , March 9, 1945, on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. "Special" issue, one of 85 copies signed by Lewis on a special leaf inserted before the title page (of which six hors commerce). Small octavo (19.5cm). Cloth-backed marbled boards; dustjacket; top edge gilt; 295pp. Conspicuous mottling to spine cloth; wear to board edges and corners, with small areas of exposed binder's board at bottom and fore edge; foxing to free endpapers - still a Very Good copy. In the rare original dustwrapper, priced 7s.6d. at base of front flap, toned and soiled with splits at spine-folds and an old clear-tape reinforcement to verso; Good. Morocco bookplate of noted American collector Barton Currie, as well as later printed paper bookplate of an L.C. Summers, inside front cover. The jacket on our copy appears to be that for the trade issue, as it measures about a half-centimeter taller than the book itself - whether so issued, or added later by a collector, we are unsure. Pound & Grover make no mention of a dustwrapper for the Special issue, nor do we trace any jacketed examples in the auction record; but it is entirely possible, since the regular and special copies were of nearly identical dimensions, that some special copies were so issued. In all, a quite presentable copy of one of the most uncommon Lewis limited editions. POUND & GROVER A8b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham. The Wild Body: A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition. 12mo. Orange-red cloth with black lettering on spine. Modest soiling on binding, two corners lightly bumped, lacks the dust jacket. Writer and philosopher Alan W. Watts' copy dated September 1932 on the front fly, and which also bears Watts' address stamp.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Wyndham.. The Wild Body.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: 295 pp. 8vo, publisher's red cloth stamped in black (lacking dust jacket). Preserved in a custom folding box. First edition. Fore-edge a little dimmed by smoke; two spots to top edge; very slightly cocked; else a bright copy. Signed and inscribed by Wyndham Lewis, to his wife, on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.