LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Revenge for Love.

London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1937].

First edition, very scarce in the dust-jacket, of ‘one of Lewis’s finest novels … a brilliant novel of character’ (Bridson, The Filibuster), set in pre-Civil War Spain and centred on an incident of Communist gun-running on the border. ‘Here for once, Communism is accepted as a...

£1250

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Blasting & Bombardiering …

London, Eyre & Spottiswode, 1937.

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...

£500

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist.

From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’ … London, Laidlaw & Laidlaw, [1939].

First edition, first issue.

£125

LEWIS, Wyndham.

‘W. B. Yeats’ [from New Verse new series, I:2, May 1939].

Offprint of an article from New Verse, loosely an obituary of Yeats who had died in January that year. Lewis was typically ambivalent, referring to the ‘stuffed language’ of Yeats’s early poems. But ‘Yeats has given me a sort of kick: a kind of soft, dreamy kick. I am obliged to him.’

£100

LEWIS, Wyndham.

America, I Presume.

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

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.

£75

LEWIS, Wyndham.

America and Cosmic Man.

London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson Ltd., [1948].

First edition, second state binding as always (the first, in green cloth, was rejected by Lewis as ‘hideous’ and was used on only 3 trial copies). In hand by 1943, not finished until 1946 and then rejected by American publishers until it finally found a British home in 1948, America and Cosmic Man...

£200

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Rude Assignment. A Narrative of my Career up-to-date … Illustrated with works by the Author.

London, Hutchinson & Co., [1950].

First edition, first impression, ‘one of the most readable of his later works ... also one of the most illuminating’ (Bridson, Filibuster).

£275

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Rotting Hill …

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1951].

First edition, inscribed ‘To Geoffrey / Benedictions / Wyndham Lewis’. Rotting Hill was a collection of stories, ‘no more political than “some of Charles Dickens’ books, and all by Mr. Shaw”’ (Bridson, The Filibuster), in that ‘today our lives are saturated by’ politics....

£750

LEWIS, Wyndham, and D. G. BRIDSON.

Typescript for broadcast: ‘Satiric Verse … The text of a lecture delivered at Harvard University...

Transmitted 9 July and 23 August 1957.

Although a recording of Lewis reading from ‘One Way Song’ was made at Harvard in 1940, the lecture that accompanied it, ‘Satiric Verse’, was not then recorded. For the 1957 broadcast it was read by Walter Allen ‘from Lewis’s own manuscript notes’. Several other sections were read by Stephen...

£1200

ELIOT, T. S.

‘Wyndham Lewis’. Reprinted from The Hudson Review, vol. X, No 2,

Summer, 1957.

Very rare offprint of Eliot’s memoir of Lewis, dated 29 April 1957. Eliot recalls his first meeting with Lewis in Ezra Pound’s rooms in 1915, his ‘remarkable novel’ Tarr, their trip to France together in 1921 (and their meeting with Joyce), and Lewis’s ‘frank and merciless critic[ism]...

£200

LEWIS, Wyndham.

One-Way Song. With a Foreword by T. S. Eliot.

London, Methuen, [1960].

Second edition, ostensibly an unaltered reprint of the first edition of 1933, but in fact with some changes. Eliot’s foreword is new to this edition. Bridson had reviewed the original edition uncharitably as ‘versified pamphleteering’ in Poetry XLV: 3 (Dec 1934), accusing it of being a satirical...

£150

LEWIS, Wyndham.

An Anthology of his Prose. Edited with an introduction by E.W.F. Tomlin.

London, Methuen & Co Ltd., [1969].

First edition. ‘The Sea-Mists of Winter’, Lewis’s famous article on the approach of blindness, appears in this Anthology for the first time in book form – the original article from The Listener is also laid in. Bridson has noted in pencil where the book text differs (with several...

£150

[LEWIS, Wyndham.]

Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.

[London, Poets and Painters Press (William Cookson), 1969.]

A triple issue of Agenda devoted to Wyndham 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,...

£75

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Unlucky for Pringle. Unpublished and other Stories … Edited and introduced by C. J. Fox and Robert Chapman.

[London,] Vision, [1973].

First edition, inscribed by the editor ‘To Geoffrey and Joyce Bridson with warmest good wishes Cy Fox’. Seven of the fifteen stories were first published here. Fox’s postcard thanks Bridson for a letter ‘which was terrifically gratifying – especially from one who did so much to get the...

£100

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced by Walter Allen.

London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].

Limited edition, no XXVII of XXX copies not for sale, signed by Mrs Wyndham Lewis, Michael Ayrton & Walter Allen, with a signed etching by Michael Ayrton. A further 100 numbered copies were for general sale at £30 each.

£500

POUND, Ezra.

The Letters … 1907-1941. Edited by D. D. Paige

… London, Faber & Faber, [1951].

First English edition, an association copy.

£150

POUND, Ezra.

The Classic Anthology defined by Confucius.

London, Faber & Faber, 1955.

First English edition, first printing, comprising sheets of the Harvard University Press edition (1954) with a cancel Faber title-page.

£175

SOPHOCLES. POUND, Ezra, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956].

First edition, inscribed by the editor Denis Goacher ‘For Geoffrey [Bridson]: Nov. ’56 / This milestone / Just missed witnessing / The total collapse of / D. G.’ – Bridson had co-produced the play for BBC radio in April 1954.

£1000

POUND, Erza.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto vorticista.

Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1957].

First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies, a translation by Pound’s daughter Mary de Rachewiltz of extracts from ‘Gaudier: a Postscript’ and ‘Vortex’ on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in December 1957.

£75

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Ezra Pound, un saggio e tre disegni.

Milan, all’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1958.

First edition, an hors serie copy (from numbered edition of 1000), a translation by Pound’s daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, of an essay that first appeared in Pound’s 65th birthday festschrift in 1950; this translation was published in part ‘to celebrate Ezra Pound’s return to Italy’.

£75