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First edition, binding variant (1), a work on ‘youth cults’ and the rise of European dictatorships. Bridson’s review was not especially complimentary, noting ‘that peculiar “kiddish” idiom which Mr. Lewis uses to advantage in his satiric novels and to little purpose elsewhere … We can excuse his wasting of our time, perhaps, but we cannot so easily excuse the wasting of his own.’

Pound & Grover A19a; Morrow & Lafourcade A20.

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