LEWIS, Wyndham (1882-1957). Blasting and Bombardiering, London, 1937, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 16 other miscellaneous works in 18 vols. (19)

LEWIS, Wyndham (1882-1957).  Blasting and Bombardiering. [From dust-jacket:] Autobiography (1914-1926). London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, frontispiece and 11 portraits by Wyndham Lewis, 4 plates based on paintings by the same artist, 4 half tone plates. Original salmon cloth, the spine lettered in black, the dust-jacket with price of 15s. unclipped (piece torn away from foot of backstrip with loss of a few letters of the publisher's name, head of backstrip frayed, backstrip lightly browned). Provenance: "To Lyne from Peter, Xmas 1937" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. The dust-jacket lists the "Personalities" described in the book as "Wynstan Auden [sic], Arnold Bennett, Gaudier Brzeska, Roy Campbell, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Augustus John, James Joyce, Colonel [T. E.] Lawrence, Walter Sickert, The Sitwells, etc. etc." With 16 other miscellaneous works in 18 vols. including Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets (Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1882, unusual contemporary limp vellum elaborately decorated in gilt with green watered silk liners), The Quartier Latin. A Little Book Devoted to the Arts (London, July 1896 - February 1898, Vols. 1-4 bound in 2, part-printed in red and black, original green pictorial cloth gilt), The Anglo-Saxon Review. A Quarterly Miscellany. Edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill (London, June 1899, number one, plates, original elaborately decorated roan gilt, joints split, rubbed), S. H. Jeyes' Mr Chamberlain. His Life and Public Career (London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1904, 2 vols., original cloth gilt with an "art nouveau" design in the manner of Charles Rennie Macintosh), James McNeill Whistler's The Gentle Art of Making Enemies ... A Third Edition (London, 1904, attractively bound in dark burgundy half morocco gilt, covers scuffed), Banister F. Fletcher and Herbert P. Fletcher's The English Home (London, 1910, original cloth gilt with a coloured illustration of a suburban villa laid down on the upper cover, FIRST EDITION), Oscar Wilde's A House of Pomegranates (London, 1911, original cloth, fourth edition), E. F. Benson's The Freaks of Mayfair (London, 1916, plates by George Plank, original buckram, FIRST EDITION), B. L. Putnam Weale's Indiscreet Letters from Peking (Shanghai, 1921, original cloth, Chinese reprint of a book that was first published in London in 1906), Henri Clouzot's Ferronnerie Moderne. 2me. Série (Paris, [?1927], 36 collotype plates of "art deco" ironwork, unbound as issued in original portfolio, second series [only, of 3]), Will Irwin's Highlights of Manhattan (New York, 1927, illustrations by E. H. Suydam, original cloth-backed boards, FIRST EDITION), H. Granville Fell's The Art of H. Davis Richter ... Foreword by Frank Brangwyn (Benfleet, 1935, plates, some coloured, original cloth, dust-jacket, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES) and Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (London, 1954, original black cloth with heart stamped in red on the upper cover and the spine lettered in red, without the dust-jacket, third impression). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Professor Bernard Nevill (1930-2019). The lot sold not subject to return. (19)