Search Results: The Demon Of Progress In the Arts by Wyndham Lewis

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955 Gold gilt title on spine. Sunning to blue cloth at top and bottom of both front and rear boards and spine. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Dust jacket with price intact, now in protective Brodart cover.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

LEWIS, Wyndham. The Demon of Progress in the Arts. Illus. Orig. cloth, dust jacker. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1955. First American edition. Fine copy.

London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a very faintly stained else near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Ashley Dukes from Wyndham Lewis". Dukes was an English playwright, critic, and theatre manager. In 1933, he founded the Mercury Theatre of London and wrote plays that appeared in the London West End and on Broadway. The Ashley Dukes Company was an important interwar promoter of serious drama, and a training ground for actors. He was the husband of Marie Rambert as well as the older brother of British MI6 spy Paul Dukes and the respected pathologist Cuthbert Dukes.