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Paperback. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A desirable pair of two very scarce issues from T. S. Eliot's literary magazine. Featuring early drafts of Wyndham Lewis' 'The Apes of God'. Includes two very scarce issues from 'The Criterion', a literary magazine created by the poet, dramatist and literary critic, T. S. Eliot, who served as its editor for its entire run.Very scarce to find copies of issues from before 1926.In the publisher's wraps with yapp edges.Featuring Number VI and Number VII of Volume II (February and April 1924). With contributions from Eliot as well as various notable writers such as Wyndham Lewis, John Middleton Murry, Hugh Walpole and Ezra Pound, among others.Both issues contains early draft forms of Wyndham Lewis' novel 'The Apes of God', which was first published in 1930 and satirises London's contemporary literary and artistic scene.The drafts here demonstrate as a short prose piece in Number VI titled 'Mr. Zagreus and the Split-Man', which is subtitled with a note wishing to finish the book it belongs to by next autumn. In the finalised novel, Zagreus ends up as an infatuated sixty-year-old albino who is determined to educate a young simpleton named Dan Boleyn. However, in this draft he takes the form of an "important ghost".In Number VII, there is a an extracted letter sent from Zagreus to Dan Boleyn, offering his review of his society and the future states of the artistic populations and identities.Further contributions include a discussion of American composer George Antheil by Ezra Pound, an essay on romanticism and tradition by John Middleton Murry and notes on art and life b G. Hauptmann.With a tipped in portrait plate of New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield to Number VII. In the publisher's wraps, with yapp edges. Externally, sunned, with heavier instances of wear to the yapp edges of Number VII, resulting in closed tears and chipping to the extremities. Internally, Pages are generally bright, with scattered spots throughout. Good. book.