LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Ideal Giant.

Stock Code 96696

London, Shield and Spring, [1917].

£2,800.00 - £2,800.00

£2,800.00

£2,800.00 - £2,800.00

£2,800.00

Lewis's first, very scarce, separately published literary publication, preceded only by Timon of Athens (1913), a portfolio of his artwork. One of between approximately 50 (as speculated on by Pound & Grover) and 200 copies of the pamphlet only, comprising three short works: 'The Ideal Giant', 'The Code of a Herdsman' and 'Cantelman's Spring-Mate'.

First edition, 8vo; stapled booklet with title and additional title bearing vorticist design by Lewis, internally very good, string-bound into cloth-backed pictorial board folder as issued replicating design by Lewis, folder with edge-wear particularly to fore-corners, some superficial marking and toning.

Morrow & Lafourcade A2; Pound & Grover A1

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