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America, I Presume.

New York, Howell, Soskins & Co., [1940].

8vo, pp. vi, 298; publisher’s red cloth, spine sunned, no jacket; a good copy; bookplate of Lewis’s friend of the 1950s D. G. Bridson.

£75

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US $97  €89

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First edition, Lewis’s first impressions of America after his abrupt departure thence in September 1939. He was to remain in North America for the duration of World War WII.

Pound & Grover A31a; Morrow & Lafourcade A31.

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