The Ideal Giant.

£2,800 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

Lewis's first, very scarce, separately published literary publication, preceded only by Timon of Athens (1913), a portfolio of his artwork. One of between approximately 50 (as speculated on by Pound Grover) and 200 copies of the pamphlet only, comprising three short works: 'The Ideal Giant', 'The Code of a Herdsman' and 'Cantelman's Spring-Mate'. First edition, 8vo; stapled booklet with title and additional title bearing vorticist design by Lewis, internally very good, string-bound into cloth-backed pictorial board folder as issued replicating design by Lewis, folder with edge-wear particularly to fore-corners, some superficial marking and toning. Morrow Lafourcade A2; Pound Grover A1

• Binding: Hardcover

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