The Roaring Queen.
by LEWIS, Wyndham
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Secker & Warburg, 1973. . First edition, number 77 of 100 copies signed by Mrs Wyndham Lewis, Michael Ayrton and Walter Allen; 8vo; frontispiece etching by Ayrton signed & numbered by him in pencil; publisher's red buckram, matching slip-case, a near-fine copy.
Wyndham Lewis' novel is a satire of the literary world in the 1930s, which Lewis intended to be published in 1936, but which Cape did not publish because they feared the book could be libelous. This is a run limited to 100 copies, which includes an original etching by Michael Ayrton titled 'Mr Wyndham Lewis regarding, with distaste and rancour, the literary establishment of the 1930s', and signed by Mrs Wyndham Lewis, Walter Allen and Michael Ayrton.
Wyndham Lewis' novel is a satire of the literary world in the 1930s, which Lewis intended to be published in 1936, but which Cape did not publish because they feared the book could be libelous. This is a run limited to 100 copies, which includes an original etching by Michael Ayrton titled 'Mr Wyndham Lewis regarding, with distaste and rancour, the literary establishment of the 1930s', and signed by Mrs Wyndham Lewis, Walter Allen and Michael Ayrton.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104613
- Title
- The Roaring Queen.
- Author
- LEWIS, Wyndham
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Secker & Warburg, 1973.
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