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A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis … With an introduction by Hugh Kenner.

Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.

8vo, pp. 373, [11]; publisher’s quarter red corduroy and printed boards, dustjacket; a fine copy in a very good jacket; bookplate of D.G. Bridson, with at least one pencil correction by him; laid in loose is an autograph card, signed, to Bridson from Lafourcade commending Bridson on his ‘BBC Broadcasts Checklist’ and reporting that ‘I still have “Tarr” & “Gilgamesh”'.

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