First edition, first impression, of this second, wartime number of Lewis’s landmark magazine. Blast only ran for two numbers, 1914–15, but holds a prominent place in literary and artistic history as the platform for the modernist manifesto of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Aside from the editors’ own substantial contributions, this War Number includes contributions by Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot (with this issue featuring the first appearance of his important poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes”), Gaudier- Brzeska (who had been killed in the war that June), C. R. W. Nevinson, Dorothy Shakespear, and Edward Wadsworth. Quarto. Original wrappers, titles and design to front wrappers in black. Numerous vignette and full page woodcuts, one illustrated plate by Gaudier-Brzeska. An excellent copy, spine ends a little rubbed and a few small chips along edges of front wrapper, wrappers and leaves unusually fresh and bright. £3,750 [153793] 61 LEWIS, Wyndham. Hitler. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931 The copy of Lewis’s friend and critic First edition, first impression, retaining the scarce and striking jacket, and with the bookplate of Lewis’s friend, D. G. Bridson, with his bookplate to the front pastedown and a few pencil annotations to text.
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