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Lewis, Wyndham.
Blasting & Bombardiering.
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswood, London;
Date of Publication: 1937
Stock Code: 15247
First edition, first printing. Octavo, pp., vi, [2], 312, plus author self-portrait frontispiece, 6 photographs on 4 plates, 11 full-page ‘portrait heads’, and 4 photo-lithographic plates after paintings by Lewis, as called for. Publisher’s original orange cloth; titled in black to spine; top edge sprayed yellow; white end-papers. In the original unclipped stiff-card cream-coloured dust-wrapper; titled to spine and upper panel. Neat gift inscription to front free end-paper. Historic tape repair to verso of jacket head; light soiling to jacket; shelf-wear to tips of spine-panel, spine toned. Minor soiling to foot of boards. Contents clean save inscriptions de above. A very serviceable copy in the original dust-jacket. The first edition of the autobiography of modernist poet, artist, and firebrand Wyndham Lewis. Perhaps best known for his vorticist ‘Blast’ magazine, Lewis drew inspiration from industrial architecture (including the Tyne Bridge, which he incorporated into a woodblock design), the Italian futurists, and his contemporaries James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. This autobiography is an account of the first generation of modernists from a practitioner who was immersed in the movement. £80.00