Lewis (Wyndham) Blasting & Bombardiering
£150
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Autobiography of the key founder of the Vorticist movement.
In stock
Light offsetting from jacket spine onto cloth, overall a very good copy; jacket a little tanned at spine, minor rubbing.
Frontispiece portrait; jacket artwork by the author.
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