WHEELS: A SECOND CYCLE

Language: English

Published by B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1917

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Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, paper title on upper panel with black cloth spine. Cover design by C. W. Beaumont. viii, 9 - 117, [3] pp.; publisher's two page list. Price label on front panel, ownership signature (F. Bridges / 1918) on front free endpaper; covers soiled and worn, edges of boards nicked in several places, internally clean, solid and unmarked, a good or better copy. First edition. Limited to 500 copies, the scarce second volume in the influential Wheels anthology series edited by Edith Sitwell. This volume marks a key early literary appearance of Aldous Huxley (contributing nine poems prior to his rise as a major novelist), alongside significant work by the Sitwell siblings-Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell; Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Helen Rootham. It also features a poignant posthumous war poem, "The Mad Soldier," by E. W. Tennant, who was killed at the Somme in 1916. FIFOOT EA2. Eschelbach & Shober 61. Gallup B2.

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Title
WHEELS: A SECOND CYCLE
Author
SITWELL, Edith [ed]: HUXLEY, Aldous, and Iris Tree, et al.
Publisher
B. H. Blackwell, Oxford
Publication year
1917
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
First edition.
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