BLASTING AND BOMBARDIERING. Autobiography (1914-1926).

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original flexible orange cloth boards, with black lettering to the spine, in the original dustwrapper. Frontispiece self portrait, 15 further plates from artwork by Lewis and four plates of photographs. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with some bumping to the spine tips and some toning to the board edges. The contents, with some foxing to the front and rear pastedowns and endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout without stamps or inscriptions. The upper edge of the text block is somewhat dusty. Complete with the lightly rubbed, bumped and nicked dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and edges. Not price-clipped (15s. net to the front flap).

The first of two autobiographies (followed by Rude Assignment in 1950), this covering his life between 1914-1926, through the First World War and notable for the author's first use of 'The Men of 1914', referring to the group of writers including himself, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. 2000 copies of the first edition sheets were printed. This example is in the second of the two bindings variants with flexible rather than stiff boards and is therefore one of 500 copies. (Pound & Grover A26a; Morrow & Lafourcade A26).