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Author : Wyndham Lewis Title: Apes of God First Trade Edition Published By Nash & Grayson London 1931……… (see pictures) Condition Of book and Dust-Jacket: This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in grey cloth with blue title lettering to spine and the upper cover,in a Good Dust-Jacket that has a shallow chip to the head ofspine and a smaller chip to the top right corner of the wrapper.Rubbed and worn to the page edges with a couple of small closed tears to the extremities of the dust-jacket.This copy is the first Trade edition of 1931 and published by Nash & Grayson.Not price clipped with 10/6 still showing to the inner flap.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.The novel is set in 1926, leading up to the General Strike in May. It has an episodic structure following a young simpleton called Dan Boleyn from one encounter with the literati to another. Dan follows the directions of an infatuated sixty-year-old albino, Horace Zagreus, who believes him to be a genius. The ‘Apes of God’ that he meets are imitators of true creators; they are characterised as prosperous mountebanks who alternately imitate and mock at and traduce those figures they at once admire and hate.8vo 625pp First Trade Edition [1931] Postage: (Free Insurance Is Included) Sent 1st Class: Free sent 1st Class within the UK 1-2 working days from dispatchSent Air-Mail: £6.50 (Europe) 5 -10 working days from dispatchSent Air-Mail: £8.50 (Rest of the World) 7 – 14 working days from dispatch Payments:Paypal We are happy to send you a paypal invoice on completion of the salePlease note that we are full time booksellers and members of the PBFA. All books are packaged carefully and come fully insured so please view the pictures and bid with confidence. Please view my other books currently listed on E-Bay by visiting our E-Bay Shop
