DYMER: A Poem
London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons / Macmillan, 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xv, [1], 104 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Orange cloth, orange topstain, gilt spine lettering. Light damp stain to tail edge of front cover a fore head tip, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ shows some rubbing to extremes and tidemark to tail edge, bit of loss to head of spine and fore tail corner. VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD. Item #7112
Reissue of Lewis's epic poem, his second publication, with a new preface accounting for its atheistic content from his pre-conversion youth. "At its original appearance in 1926, Dymer, like many better books, found some good reviews and almost no readers. The idea of disturbing its repose in the grave now comes from its publishers, not from me, but I have reason for wishing to the present at the exhumation. Nearly a quarter of a century has gone since I wrote it, and in that time things have changed both within me and round me; my old poem might be misunderstood by those who now read it for the first time."
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