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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Tight unmarked book in clean black cloth; in lightly rubbed dust jcaket.; 229P; 229 pages; The first (and still the only) substantial collection of all known poetry and dramatic writing by the Anglo-American modernist giant Wyndham Lewis (1882â"1957) â" painter, novelist, critic, founder of Vorticism, and one of the most controversial figures of 20th-century British literature. Early Poems (1908â"1918) Including the complete One-Way Song (1933) â" his major long modernist poem â" and the satirical, apocalyptic sequence Enemy of the Stars (first published in BLAST 1914). Later Poems (1925â"1956) Shorter lyrics, satires, and fragments, many previously uncollected. Plays Enemy of the Stars (the original 1914 Vorticist drama â" a surreal, anti-naturalist âplay for the mindâ) The Ideal Giant (1918) The Mysterious Mr. Bull (unpublished during Lewisâs lifetime) The Mysterious Mr. Bull (a second, revised version) Appendices Previously unpublished fragmentsLewisâs own notes on his dramatic theories (Grok).…