The Apes of God.
by LEWIS, Wyndham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, The Arthur Press, 1930. . First edition, 4to., number 413 of 750 copies signed by the author, decorations by the author, some foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket designed by Wyndham Lewis, lacking whole of title section on spine and top-edge of lower panel, but upper panel and inner flaps intact and unmolested.
"Originally part of the 'five hundred thousand word book, The Man of the World' (so-called in a letter to Ezra Pound, April 29, 1925, Yale), The Apes of God was written intermittently from 1922-1930. Two passages were published in earlier draft form in The Criterion, with the help of T.S. Eliot". (Morrow & Lafourcade, A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis)
Morrow & Lafourcade A12a
"Originally part of the 'five hundred thousand word book, The Man of the World' (so-called in a letter to Ezra Pound, April 29, 1925, Yale), The Apes of God was written intermittently from 1922-1930. Two passages were published in earlier draft form in The Criterion, with the help of T.S. Eliot". (Morrow & Lafourcade, A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis)
Morrow & Lafourcade A12a
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96543
- Title
- The Apes of God.
- Author
- LEWIS, Wyndham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, The Arthur Press, 1930.
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