Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Centre Georges Pompidou / Pandora Editions, Cahiers pour un temps, 1982, 188 p., illustrations, broché, couverture très légèrement défraîchie, état très correct.
Published by Peter Russell
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with light fading to panel edges. Complete issue. Includes "Letters Concerning 'The Waste Land" by Pound and Eliot, "Two Unpublished Letters" by T.E. Lawrence, "A Note on Michael Ayrton's 'The Passion of the Vine'" by Wyndham Lewis, and "Death and the Compass" by Jorge Luis Borges.
Published by New York: The Hudson Review, Inc., 1955
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 160pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes Canto 85 by Ezra Pound (Gallup C1741). Also Eliot and Wyndham Lewis. Unmarked copy, some general wear and toning. Not Signed.
Published by Egoist, 1914
Seller: Ben Mazer Modern Firsts, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Both issues of Blast. Issue I is missing the covers. Issue II has an abrasion upper spine. Otherwise interior complete and very good.
Published by London: John Lane, 1915
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 102 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. Some rubbing to spine. 'Only 2 editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed)[1][2] and featured a bright pink cover, referred to by Ezra Pound as the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus"; and this, the second a year later on 15 July 1915.'.
Published by London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1914-5, 1914
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First editions, first impressions, all published, of this landmark modernist magazine, the literary and artistic manifesto of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. In addition to Pound and Lewis, contributors included Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, and T. S. Eliot (with the 1915 issue containing the first appearance of his important poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"), Gaudier-Brzeska (who had been killed in the war), C. R. W. Nevinson, Dorothy Shakespear, and Edward Wadsworth. Two vols, quarto. Original wrappers, titles and design to front wrappers in black. Numerous illustrations to plates and in the text. An attractive set, Blast 1 with some restoration to spine but preserving most of the fragile original, wrappers still pink to sides but with some sunning around edges, some spotting to edges and a little internally; Blast 2 with some small chips to spine ends and wrapper edges but completely without restoration, and remarkably fresh within with none of the usual foxing, a very good set overall.
Published by John Lane, Bodley Head, 1914
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Gaudier-Brzeska, C. R. W. Nevinson, Dorothy Shakespear,Edward Wadsworth,Wyndham Lewis, (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1914-5. First editions, first impressions, all published by John Lane, Bodley Head . A landmark modernist magazine, the literary and artistic manifesto of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. In addition to Pound and Lewis, contributors included Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, and T. S. Eliot (with the 1915 issue containing the first appearance of his important poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"), Gaudier-Brzeska (who had been killed in the war), C. R. W. Nevinson, Dorothy Shakespear, and Edward Wadsworth. Two volumes, quarto. Bound in original printed paper printed wrappers; Vol. I printed in black on pink card, with 22 black-and-white photographic plates, pp. 160, [iv, ads.].The paper on the spine has been replaced sympathetically and toned in; covers reattached; corners and fore-edges strengthened and repaired. The covers are a little worn at at some point have got wet and the pink has bleed through onto the title page and a little on the following page. Internally complete with the occasional scattering of spotting but generally very good throughout. Due to the paper used for the original binding to volume one, most copies have issues with the cover. Vol. II with cover design by Lewis in black over white card; pp. 102, [vi, ads.] with 20 full-page, inter-text and tailpiece illustrations by Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Jacob Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Christopher Nevinson, William Roberts and many others, and 1 photograph.The paper on the top and bottom of the spine has been repaired; corners and fore-edges strengthened and repaired. The covers are a little discoloured. Internally complete with the occasional spotting throughout. Both volumes are aged toned and with age related markings and had some restoration which now makes it easier to handle them. Housed in a custom made black arbelave buckram solander box lined with black acid free paper. Loosely inserted is a cutting regarding 'Little Review Magazine' Size 34.5 x 27 x 6cm [13.5 x 10.5 x 2.5 inches].