Lot 118 of 230:
Signed with marginalia by Cecil Lewis  

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$300 - $500

Title:
The Serpent's Eye: Shaw and the Cinema - signed by Cecil Lewis

Author:
Costello, Donald P.

Place:
Notre Dame, Indiana

Publisher:
University of Notre Dame Press

Date:
1965

Description:

Illustrated from photographs. Foreword by Cecil Lewis. (8vo), original yellow cloth decorated in blue and red, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.

Signed by Cecil Lewis after his foreword, and with occasional marginalia and notations by him throughout the text.  Scarce work with Lewis' signature and comments.

Cecil Arthur Lewis MC was a British fighter pilot who flew in World War I. He went on to co-found the British Broadcasting Company and enjoy a long career as a writer, notably of the aviation classic Sagittarius Rising. He was the last surviving British flying ace of World War I.


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Condition:
Jacket price-clipped with rubbing and edgewear; cloth with light rubbing to extremities, ownership signature on front pastedown; near fine volume in very good jacket.


 
Item number:
297376
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