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Lewis, Wyndham [editor].
BLAST 2.
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa;
Date of Publication: 2000
Stock Code: 12742
Facsimile, folio; pp., 102, plus six pages of advertisements and one page biography of the editor to end. Rust-brown paper covers, with facsimile image of the cover of Blast (July 1915) to upper; titled to spine. Small remnants of sticker to lower cover. Otherwise a clean and bright copy. Very Good. Facsimile of the 1915 Vorticist publication edited by Wyndham Lewis with contributions from Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Gaudier Brzeska and Ford Madox Hueffer. BLAST 2 combines woodcuts, poetry, and prose in a consciously harsh style. Lewis drew inspiration for some images from the industrial architecture of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which is evident in some of the woodblocks reproduced here. £45.00