The Caliph's Design.: Architects! Where is your Vortex?
by LEWIS, Wyndham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Egoist Ltd,, 1919. First edition, first impression. In this typically acerbic tirade against British architecture of the time, Lewis "offers the most sustained and considered of his early critiques of the art scene of the early twentieth century" (Foshay, p. 6). Octavo. Original blue and white marbled boards, paper label on front cover printed in black. Spine lightly toned, tiny nick to front joint, else a fine copy. Morrow & Lafourcade A4 (1,000 copies). Toby Avard Foshay, Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde: The Politics of the Intellect, 1992.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163490
- Title
- The Caliph's Design.
- Author
- LEWIS, Wyndham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: The Egoist Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1919
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Marbled boards
- ...