First edition. Light wear at the spine ends, very near fine in attractive, near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a few old internal repairs and tiny nicks at the spine ends. Inscribed by the author on the first blank: ""to Gene Nash from Wyndham Lewis St. Louis 1944. "" Nash was a student at St. Louis University, and among the young people of intellectual interests whom Lewis got to know in St. Louis. After WL's return to England, Nash went into the paper business in Louisiana and then moved to California. (*The Letters of Wyndham Louis*. Rose p.482). Largely through the offices of Marshall McLuhan, Lewis stayed in St. Louis for six months in 1944, earning money by giving a series of lectures and doing portraits of society people.