Julian Bell: Essays, Poems, Letters.

Bell (Julian)

Julian Bell: Essays, Poems, Letters.

Edited by Quentin Bell, with Contributions by J.M. Keynes, David Garnett, Charles Mauron, C. Day Lewis and E.M Forster.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 further photographs of Bell, light spotting to opening leaves, pp. xi, 396, 8vo, original turquoise cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, rubbed and a little worn at ends, light overall soiling with a few marks, endpapers spotted, contemporary ownership inscription and address-label of Barbara Bagenal to flyleaf (see below), fair condition

Publication Details: The Hogarth Press, 1938

Notes: The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing; among her enduring relationships within the group was with Clive Bell, the author's father, to whom she was a 'devoted companion' (ODNB) in the latter decades of his life.A volume commemorating the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, who had died in shellfire whilst fighting General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. It includes his poetry, along with unpublished essays and letters - two of which replied to by Forster and Day Lewis respectively - as well as tribut...moreThe copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing; among her enduring relationships within the group was with Clive Bell, the author's father, to whom she was a 'devoted companion' (ODNB) in the latter decades of his life.A volume commemorating the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, who had died in shellfire whilst fighting General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. It includes his poetry, along with unpublished essays and letters - two of which replied to by Forster and Day Lewis respectively - as well as tributes to him.One of 1,200 copies (half of which pulped). HIDE

Bibliography: (Woolmer 426)

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