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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.
WYNDHAM LEWIS. THE CHILDERMASS , SCTION 1. CHATTO AND WINDUS, LONDON, 1928.
Price: US$155.08 + 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 1.. Chatto and Windus, London., 1928.
Price: US$226.16 + 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
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$258.47 + 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$284.32 + 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.. 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 & 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$387.70 + 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$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.
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 1.. London, Chatto & Windus, 1928., 1928.
Price: US$3230.86 + 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