wyndham lewis discursive exposition de hugh gordon porteus (4 résultats)

Etat : Fair. 1932. First Edition. 297 pages. No dust jacket. Black paper covered boards. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine end with splits to spine edges. Wear marks overall.

HARDCOVER. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Hardcover edition. 297pp, octavo in black cloth. light wear to book covers yet clean, binding remains strong, foxing to endpapers, mild dampstain along top and bottom edges of page block, text clean throughout, Good+; black dj covers mildly worn on rear, chipping to top fore-edge corners and spine, front dj cover detached along dj spine edge, Fair.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with white lettering to spine. Black endpages; black topstain. In scarce dustjacket showing some very light wear to outer corners and to head and heel of spine panel.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good Indeed. Etat de la jaquette : Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. The first edition of Hugh Gordon Porteus' critical exploration of the works of Wyndham Lewis, with the original, very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. With the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first critical study of the works of Percy Wyndham Lewis, the British author and critic who co-founded the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists. Written by Hugh Gordon Porteus, known for his influential reviews of various works of art and literature of the 1930s. Porteus was a huge admirer of Wyndham Lewis, with Lewis portraying Porteus as the character "Rotter" Parkinson in his novel Self Condemned. With essays on The Split-Man, The Visionary, The Satirist, and more. With a newspaper cutting containing Porteus's obituary, loosely inserted, and an inscription from H. A. Mason, possibly that of the renowned literary critic and lecturer, Henry Andrew Mason. Bound in the publisher"s cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light bumping to the extremities and the odd mark. Front hinge is a touch strained, but holding firm. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Dust wrapper is sound, with chipping to the extremities, causing a little loss to the backstrip head and tail. Label remnants to backstrip and the odd mark. Tear to the front joint, with a horizontal tear to the backstrip center. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Offsetting from newspaper cutting to title page and page facing. Very Good Indeed. book.