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LEWIS, Wyndham. THE DIABOLICAL PRINCIPLE AND THE DITHYRAMBIC SPECTATOR

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LEWIS, Wyndham. THE DIABOLICAL PRINCIPLE AND THE DITHYRAMBIC SPECTATOR
LEWIS, Wyndham. THE DIABOLICAL PRINCIPLE AND THE DITHYRAMBIC SPECTATOR

Type: Modern First Edition
Vendor: Watersmead Books

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Chatto and Windus, London, 1931

First Edition.

Octavo. Original red cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge stained yellow, lower edge untrimmed. Damp stain to top edge of text block near spine, otherwise a fine copy in a dust jacket with nicked corners but otherwise exceptional. 

Lewis' assault on fashionable art theories current at the time.   

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