1932 Wyndham Lewis: A Discursive Exposition

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon, With Dustwrapper

The first edition.

With the original, unclipped dust wrapper.

The first critical study of the works of Percy Wyndham Lewis, the British author and critic who co-founded the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.

Written by Hugh Gordon Porteus, known for his influential reviews of various works of art and literature of the 1930s. Porteus was a huge admirer of Wyndham Lewis, with Lewis portraying Porteus as the character "Rotter" Parkinson in his novel Self Condemned.

With essays on The Split-Man, The Visionary, The Satirist, and more.

With a newspaper cutting containing Porteus's obituary, loosely inserted, and an inscription from H. A. Mason, possibly that of the renowned literary critic and lecturer, Henry Andrew Mason.