THE MEN OF 1914
LEWIS, Wyndham.
Blasting & Bombardiering …
London, Eyre & Spottiswode, 1937.
8vo, pp. vi, [2], 312, with a frontispiece self-portrait and black and white plates; publisher’s orange cloth, top edge stained, pale grey dust-jacket printed in black and yellow to a design by Lewis; a fine copy in a good jacket, stain to front cover, spine browned; bookseller’s ticket ‘Magasin du Nord’, bookplate of the BBC broadcaster D. G. Bridson, a friend of Lewis in the 1950s; laid in loose is a cut down version of the dust-jacket front cover.
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First edition, first issue binding, of one of Lewis’s best and best-known works. It was the first of two largely autobiographical books, this covering 1914-1926 as stated on the jacket, and is now remembered in particular for its coining of the much-discussed phrase ‘The Men of 1914’, referring to the group of writers including himself, Pound, Eliot and Joyce.
Pound & Grover A26a; Morrow & Lafourcade A26.
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