Search Results: The Childermass by Wyndham Lewis

New York: Covici, Friede, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover, black cloth. Octavo. 322pp. Very Good+.Part I only published volume."begins as a posthumous fantasy of very great scope" and "evolves into an afterlife narrative."--Clute and Nicholls.

Jupiter Books, 1965-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2.1983 in x 17.8864 in x 12.0908 in.

Convici Friede, 1928. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. Part 1 only, as issued. Assumed first edition. Light wear on edges of boards, some mild rubbing and scuffing on covers. Book plate from previous owner on inside front cover; some discoloration from binding process on end leaves. Faint damp stain on bottom edge near spine throughout, otherwise clean. Good binding.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 322 pp. Printed dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with decorative trim and spine lettering in red. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a long split to front joint tracing half of the length of the spine; general rubbing and toning. Boards lightly soiled; light wear to edges; front joint slightly collapsed. Binding is sound. Stamp of the Hunterdon County Art Center of Clinton, New Jersey to front pastedown and title page. Ownership inscription of "H. Ford" to front free endpaper, and interior else unmarked. Very Good.

London: Chatto and Windus. 1928. First edition, first printing, complete with original dustwrapper. First edition, first printing, complete with original dustwrapper. Publisher's original yellow cloth with red-patterned trim and red titles to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm but with some rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and some darkening to the top edge of the upper board. The contents, with some spotting to the front endpaper, a faint pencil inscription to the front pastedown, and some offsetting to the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. The upper text block edge is somewhat dusty. Publisher's original bookmark inside. The dustwapper, with darkening to the spine and a small tear to the upper tip, spotting to the dust flaps, and some bumping to the edges, is otherwise in good condition. A highly experimental and radical work which Frederic Jameson, in his book Fables of Aggression, dubbed "the supreme realization of what has to be called… Read More

Chatto and Windus, London., 1928. 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.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First Edition, limited issue, one of 225 numbered copies signed by Lewis. Some foxing, very good plus in a very good, chipped dust jacket.

London : Chatto and Windus , 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 322 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Lewis, Percy Wyndham. Purgatory ; Fiction. Genre: Zoology. Language: English.

LONDON, CHATTO, 1928, 1928. SCARCE IN DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover.

London: Chatto and Windus,, 1928. First edition, first impression, of the first book in Lewis's epic trilogy The Human Age, considered by the literary critic Frederic Jameson as "the supreme realization of what has to be called theological science fiction" (Jameson, p. 6). Childermass is the author's most experimental work, and "a veritable summa of [his] narrative modernism" (ibid.). The book follows the adventures of Sattersthwaite and Pullman, two Englishmen killed in the Great War, as they travel through a Dantesque afterlife while awaiting to ascend to The Magnetic City. Chatto & Windus paid Lewis a £200 advance for the complete Childermass, but his failure to produce volumes II and III resulted in a lawsuit. The contract was eventually transferred to Methuen, and the complete trilogy was not published until 1955, when Methuen published Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta in a single volume. Collectively, these three books constitute Lewis's longest single fictive work, which was dramatized for the… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Limited. hardcover. fine. Large 8vo, yellow cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Limited First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> One of 225 specially bound signed copies. End-leaves browned, as usual, otherwise fine.<br/><br/>

London: Chatto and Windus,, 1928. 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. 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… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. 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. 1 vols. 8vo.