bell neil pseud (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Thus. VG-/Good (DJ chipped and faded, cloth discolored with wear) 8vo DJ 488pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Novelist. One page, 8vo. She has obviously asked him for a copy of his "So Perish the Rose" but he says that it has "long been out of print & copies are extremely difficult to come by as I well know for I have been trying to get one for some time.".

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First American Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; red top-stain; dustjacket; 488pp. Tight, Near Fine copy of the book. The dustwrapper has old kraft paper reinforcements to verso; recto shows light rubbing and wear at folds and extremities, bit of soil to lighter portions; Very Good. Little-known (and apparently little-read) British social novel, chronicling a working-class carpenter's rise to prosperity. Southwold/Bell is best remembered as a prolific science fiction writer, especially for his "Gas War" series (1930-31).

FIRST EDITION. Half title; a little spotted. Orig. buff cloth, spine lettered in red. D. Wickham booklabel. Inscribed by the author on the titlepage in green ink, 'Jack Overhill from his friend Neil Bell with all good wishes in these perilous times, July 2, 1940.' A novelised account of the life of Charles Lamb; 'not Coleridge's "gentle-hearted Charles", but the man who lived life so fully and so passionately.'.