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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.. 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.