Blast [together with] Blast: War Issue.

£8,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A complete set in unusually good condition of one the greatest literary and art periodicals of the 20th century. 2 numbers, all published; 4to; woodcut vorticist designs by Lewis, 22 monochromatic plates by Wyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Jacob Epstein, Gaudier Brzeska, Christopher Nevinson, William Roberts and others, advertisements at end printed within blue borders, censor's inked strike-throughs to lines of Ezra Pound's poem 'Fratres Minores' as usual. Issue 1: publisher's pink wrappers printed in black, a little rubbed as usual with a stain to upper wrapper extending onto the backstrip, usual spotting throughout, but this notwithstanding an exceptional copy of this landmark publication; Issue 2 (The War Issue) publisher's decorated white wrappers printed in black with the full cover illustration after Wyndham Lewis, a very nice copy indeed.

• Binding: Hardcover

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