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Percy Wyndham Lewis

Male : Novelist, poet & artist. Travelled in Europe becoming close friend of Augustus John. Returning to England in 1909 he became a professional apinter. In 1914 founded the Vorticist Movement and edited its paper Blast for the only two issues. Went blind in 1953
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Off coast of Maine in his fathers' yacht

Date of Birth : 1882 Date of Death : 1957 Age : 75

Education : Rugby & Slade School of Art
1915-1920
Timon of Athens
(1914 Cube Press) - portfolio with 16 colour Lewis drawings
Blast 1
(June 1914)
Blast 2
(1915 July, London)
The Ideal Giant : The Code of a Herdsman
(1917 PP, The Little Review)
Tarr
(1918 Knopf) (1918 The Egoist Ltd) - 1st Novel
Harold Gilman : An Appreciation
(1919 Chatto & Windus) - with Louis F Fergusson
[Harold Gilman, 1876-1919, English painter of Sickert's circle and a founder
member of the Camden Town Group]

The Caliph's Design : Architects ! Where is Your Vortex ?
(1919 The Egoist Ltd)

1921-1930
The Tyro, No 2
(1922 Egoist Press)
The Lion and the Fox
(1926)
The Art of Being Ruled
(1926 Chatto & Windus) (1926 Harper)
The Wild Body
(1927 C & W)
The Lion and the Fox : The Role of the Hero in Shakespeare's Plays
(1927 Grant Richards)
(1927 Harper)
Time and Western Man
(1927 C & W)
The Childermass - Section 1
(1928 C & W)
Paleface : The Philosophy of the Melting Pot
(1929 C & W)
Satire and Fiction
(1930 The Arthur Press)
The Apes of God
(1930 The Arthur Press, London 3 gns) - Signed Ltd Ed 750

1931-1935
The Apes of God
(1931 Nash & Grayson) - first trade ed 1900 copies printed. (1932 McBride, US)
Hitler
(1931 Chatto & Windus)
The Diabolical Principle and the Dithyrambic Spectator
(1931 C & W)
Offered in 1999 for £650
The Doom of Youth
(1932 McBride, NY) (1932 C & W)
Filibusters in Barbary
(1932 National Travel Club, US) (1932 Grayson, UK)
The Enemy of the Stars
(1932 Desmond Harmsworth)
Thirty Personalities and a Self-Portrait
(1932 Desmond Harmondsworth, London)
- 200 signed. Portfolio with ties
Offered in 1991 for £600
Snooty Baronet
(1932 Cassell)
Offered in 1999 for £775
The Old Gang and the New
(1933 Desmond Harmsworth)
One-Way Song
(1933 Faber)
Men Without Art
(1934 London)
Left Wings Over Europe, or How to Make a War About Nothing
(1936 Cape)

1936-1940
Blasting and Bombardiering : Autobiography 1914-1926
(1937 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
The Revenge for Love
(1937 Cassell) (1952 Regnery)
Count Your Dead, They are Alive !
(1937 Lovat Dickson)
Offered in 1999 for £395
The Mysterious Mr Bull
(1938 Robert Hale)
One-Way Song
(1938)
The Jews : Are They Human ?
(1939 Allen & Unwin)
Offered in 1999 for £300
Wyndham Lewis the Artist
(1939 Laidlaw & Laidlaw)
The Hitler Cult and How it Will End
(1939 Dent)
America, I Presume
(1940 Howell, Soskin, NY)

1941-1950
The Vulgar Streak
(1941 London)
America and Cosmic Man
(1948 Nicholson & Watson) (1949 Doubleday)
Rude Assignment
(1950 Hutchinson)

1951-1960
Rotting Hill
(1951 Methuen) (1952 Chicago)
The Writer and the Absolute
(1952 Methuen)
Self-Condemned
(1954 Methuen 15/-) - Ayrton d/w
The Demon of Progress in the Arts
(1954 Methuen 12/6) (1955 Regnery, Chicago)
The Human Age : Complete Edition
(1955 Methuen) - 2 vols. Michael Ayrton
The Apes of God
(1955 Arco 3gns) - 25th Anniversary Ltd Ed 1000 signed
The Red Priest
(1956 Methuen 15/-)
The Human Age : Book 1 - Childermass
(1956 Methuen)
Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism : Exhibition Catalogue
(1956 Tate Gallery)

1961-1980
The Letters : Ed by W K Rose
(1963 New Directions) (1963 Methuen)
A Soldier of Humour
(1966 US)
The Roaring Queen
(1973 Secker & Warburg) (1973 US) - d/w by Michael Ayrton
Unlucky for Pringle
(1973 Vision Press, London)
Enemy Salvoes : selected Literary Criticism
(1975)
Mrs Duke's Million
(1977 Canada) - 1000. Author's 1st novel written 1908-10 but never published
Imaginery Letters
(1977 Wyndham Lewis Society) - 300
Collected Poems and Plays
(1979 NY)
Collected Poems and Plays
(1979 NY)

After 1981
The Sea-Mists of the Winter
(1981 Black Sparrow) - 176 numbered. Author
Blast
(1981-4 Black Sparrow) - 3 vols. Facsimiles of the earlier editions
The Complete Wild Body
(1982 Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara) - 750 numbered & 750 trade
Journey into Barbary
(1983 Black Sparrow) - Ltd Ed 226. Ed by CJ Fox
Rude Assignment
(1984 BSP) - de luxe 226 numbered. Author
Snooty Baronet
(1984 BSP) - 226. Author
The Caliph's Design
(1986 BSP) - 400. Author
Men Without Art
(1987 BSP) - 176. Author
Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change : Essays on Art, Literature & Society 1914-1956
(1989 BSP) - 150. Edited by Paul Edwards
The Art of Being Rules
(1989 BSP) - 126 de luxe copies

Illustrated by Lewis
Naomi M MITCHISON : Beyond This Limit
(1935 Cape)
William SHAKESPEARE : Timon of Athens
(1914 Cube Press)

PERIODICALS
Apple
Blast
Chapbook
Enemy
Tyro

READING
Charles Handley-Read : The Art of Wyndham Lewis
(1951 Faber)
Hugh Kenner : Wyndham Lewis
(1954 Methuen 12/6) (1954 US)
Geoffrey Wagner : Wyndham Lewis
(1957 NY)
Walter Michel : Wyndham Lewis - Paintings and Drawings
(1971 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto)
T Materer : Wyndham Lewis the Novelist
(1976 US)
Bradford Morrow & Bernard LaFourcade : Wyndham Lewis - A Bibliography
(1978 Black Sparrow Press)
Jeffrey Meyers : The Emeny - A Biography of Wyndham Lewis
(1980 Routledge)
(Ed) Julian Symons : The Essential Wyndham Lewis (1989 Deutsch £17.95)
Paul O'Keefe : Some Sort of Genius - A Life of Wyndham Lewis
(2000 Cape £25)
Paul Edwards : Wyndham Lewis - Painter and Writer
(2000 Yale UP £40)

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