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LEWIS, Percy Wyndham, and Seamus COONEY, editors. Blast Review of the Great English Vortex. 3 vols. Second and first facsimile reprints; FIRST EDITION.
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LEWIS, Percy Wyndham (1882-1957), and Seamus COONEY, editors. Blast Review of the Great English Vortex. No. 1. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. -- No. 2. -- No. 3. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981, 1984.


Together, 3 volumes, 4to. Numerous illustrations. Original printed wrappers (a touch of soiling and light wear to edges).

1: Second facsimile reprint. 2: First facsimile reprint, one of 3,000 copies. 3: FIRST EDITION. The Vorticist journal Blast was first published on 20 June 1914, was edited by Lewis, the founder of Vorticism, and featured contributions by notable early 20th-century artists and authors, including T.S. Eliot, Ford Maddox Ford, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West. The publication employed various fonts, layouts, and reproductions of artworks to enhance their artistic opinions. Blast 3 includes previously unpublished letters by Pound.

[Laid into Blast 3:] CAMPBELL, K.R. "Blast 3 The Maker of the Sound." Black Sparrow Press, 1984. 7" gramophone record with yellow paper labels to both sides printed in red and black.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio
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