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Paleface.

The Philosophy of the 'Melting-Pot'.

Stock Code 96703

London, Chatto & Windus, 1929

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$766.00
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An adaptation of the essay that originally appeared in The Enemy, No.2, examining the presence and role of "race-consciousness" in contemporary literature and poetry. In the work Wyndham Lewis contextualises western man's innate tendency for self-destruction, particularly in light of the First World War, and considers the "melting pot" model that America aspires to, a subject he addresses again in his America and Cosmic Man (1948).

First edition, 8vo; foxing throughout, original two-tone black & white cloth, dust-jacket with design by Lewis, browned at spine with loss to head & tail, some chips to fore-corners and top-edge of upper panel.

Morrow & Lafourcade A11; Pound & Grover A10a
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Paleface.

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Stock code: 96703

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