Tutored by a 60-year-old Albino dilettante, Dan travels through the London art world. He is horrified, confused and bored by the contrived "broadcasts" of the "apes", a series of pseudo artists who resemble, on the one hand, absurd mechanical dolls, and on the other, specific personages of the era.
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Tutored by a 60-year-old Albino dilettante, Dan travels through the London art world. He is horrified, confused and bored by the contrived "broadcasts" of the "apes", a series of pseudo artists who resemble, on the one hand, absurd mechanical dolls, and on the other, specific personages of the era.
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Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES.
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New York. 1932. Robert M. McBride. 1st American Edition. Bookstore Sticker in Back, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket. 626 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Acknowledged by the critics to be one of the most devastating books in our language, THE APES OF GOD strips bare the social affectations and malaise that made the British culture of his time so hateful to Wyndham Lewis. The period of the late 1920s, described later by Lewis as ‘the insanitary trough between the two great wars. ' Lewis's mock-picaresque hero is Dan Boleyn, a 20-year-old Irish innocent. Tutored by a 60-year-old albino dilettante named Horace Zagreus, Dan travels reluctantly through the London art world. He is horrified (and confused, and bored half to death) by the false, contrived ‘broadcasts' of the ‘Apes'-a series of pseudo-artists who resemble, on the one hand, absurd mechanical dolls, and on the other, very specific personages of the era (like Sir Osbert Sitwell). Lewis's version of a world in which habitual falsehood has created general paralysis is fierce, unrelieved, and prophetic of an even more mediocre future. At the time of its publication, British poet and critic Richard Aldington called THE APES OF GOD ‘one of the most tremendous forces ever conceived in the mind of man. For comparisons one must fall back to Rabelais and Aristophanes. inventory #18074.
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $35.98, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Black Sparrow Press.
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $44.11, good condition, Sold by BARNABY rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oxford, OXFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Black Sparrow Press.
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Good Condition. Cover gently rubbed and marked. Clean and fresh contents. Otherwise, in good used condition. Size: 23.5 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm. 639 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Bohemianism--Fiction; Rich people--Fiction; Artists--Fiction; England--Fiction; Genre; Epic fiction; Satire; ISBN: 0876855125. ISBN/EAN: 9780876855126. Add. Inventory No: 240221SWT013010.
Add this copy of The Apes of God (1932 Edition) to cart. $47.50, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. 1932. Hardcover. Cloth. Octavo. 625 pp. Mild shelf wear to boards, discoloration to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Some toning to endpapers, mild toning to pages. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Literature).
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $53.25, good condition, Sold by Half Moon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Black Sparrow Press.
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Good. Book shows some light soiling, scuffing, rubbing and a few creases. Front inside corners of cover show some tearing away from spine. Page edges have some shallow scratches.
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $59.49, good condition, Sold by Dodman Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Morston, NORFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1931 by Nash & Grayson.
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Good. No Jacket. ND. 1931. Likely second edition of Lewis's novel, appearing after the Arthur Press limited edition of 1930. Stock lightly toned to page edges, but otherwise all in VG internal order, clean and bright throughout. No inscriptions. Pale cloth only lightly worn but quite heavily marked and spotted, mostly to front board. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 624pp.
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $71.84, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1984 by Black Sparrow Press, U. S.
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $75.00, very good condition, Sold by Quercus Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chico, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Robert M. McBride & Company.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), a founder of the Vorticist art movement, also wrote novels and criticism. He was famous for his feuds, and "The Apes of God" is a satire directed toward the English literary scene. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition, published two years after the British version. Gray cloth binding with red lettering on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 625 pages. The spine has darkened and has rubbing at the head and foot. Lacking the dustwrapper. A sound copy, in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
Add this copy of Apes of God (Penguin Modern Classics) to cart. $75.66, very good condition, Sold by PRESTONSHIRE BOOKS rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Appleton, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Penguin Books.
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Very Good. Penguin Modern Classics 2513. Name on front end page, no other marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Very small spot on front cover, some darkening to spine, light wear to spine ends and corners. 650 pp Carefully packaged and shipped in box. L.
Add this copy of The Apes of God to cart. $76.33, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Black Sparrow Press.