(#160152) THE HUMAN AGE. BOOK TWO: MONSTRE GAI. BOOK THREE: MALIGN FIESTA. Wyndham Lewis.

THE HUMAN AGE. BOOK TWO: MONSTRE GAI. BOOK THREE: MALIGN FIESTA. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Michael Ayrton, cloth. First edition. First (and only) printing. The second and third parts of a bizarre modern (and conspicuously modernist) Divine Comedy collectively entitled "The Human Age," preceded by THE CHILDERMASS ... PART I (1928). The fourth part, THE TRIAL OF MAN was never written; a few fragments outlining its intended contents survive. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 5-180. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-217. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2388-89. Reginald 09038. Morrow and Lafourcade A40. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced 30s with tiny 10 mm closed tear at upper front spine fold. A lovely copy and quite scarce thus. (#160152).

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