contributor’s copy, with a letter from the editor
[LEWIS, Wyndham.]
Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.
[London, Poets and Painters Press (William Cookson), 1969.]
8vo, pp. 224, cover title, numerous plates, including some folding in colour; spine creased, else a very good copy in the publisher’s colour-printed covers reproducing a design by Lewis; laid in loose is an autograph letter of 30 May 1969 to Bridson from the editor, William Cookson, thanking him for his ‘excellent article on the production of The Human Age – it’s the most interesting piece that has come in for the issue as yet’; and a cutting of a review by Julian Symons.
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Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.
A triple issue of Agenda devoted to Lewis. Bridson’s article, ‘The making of The Human Age’ appears on pp. 163-171, and mentions his own inscribed copy of the work; also included are the talk commissioned from I. A. Richards before the broadcast of The Childermass, two articles by Pound, several excerpts from Lewis, and a bibliography.
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