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LEWIS, WYNDHAM. The Ideal Giant. The Code of a Herdsman. Cantelman's Spring-Mate.
Estimate:
$600 - $900
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Description
Description: LEWIS, WYNDHAM. The Ideal Giant. The Code of a Herdsman. Cantelman's Spring-Mate. 8vo (215 x 140 mm), publisher's printed stapled self-wrappers string-tied into original cloth-backed pictorial board folder, cover illustration after design by Lewis, boards with dust soiling, chipped corners, and scattered staining; staples rusted. First edition of Lewis's first separate literary book, (preceded by Timon of Athens, a portfolio of illustrations). Printed in an edition of approximately 200 copies, though Pound and Grover speculate that perhaps only 50 copies of the folder were produced but that more copies of the pamphlet were printed. Rare; according to Rare Book Hub, the first copy at auction in nearly two decades. Morrow and Lafourcade A2; Pound and Grover A1. London: Privately printed for the London Office of the Little Review, [1917]