Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex. No. 1. June 20th, 1914. Edited by Wyndham Lewis.

Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex. No.1. June 20th, 1914. Edited by Wyndham Lewis. 4to, 160[4] pages, 31cm, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914.

Illustrations by Edward Wadsworth, Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells, William Roberts, Jacob Epstein, Gaudier Brzeska, Cuthbert Hamilton and Spencer Gore. Some light spotting to prelims. Original puce wrappers, titled 'BLAST' diagonally, detached at front, hipped with some loss. Some tape marks to spine, but generally very good.

Includes: "The Saddest Story" by Ford Madox Hueffer, a short story that eventually became "The Good Soldier"; Poems by Ezra Pound; "Indissoluble Matrimony" by Rebecca West; manifestos and articles by Wyndham Lewis. Only two issues of Blast were published (No.2 in July 1915) - both were printed by Leveridge and Co., Harlesden, on cheap paper.