BELL, Adrian. The Balcony. London: Cobden-Sanderson. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s salmon cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the charming dust jacket designed by John Nash. A very good copy, the cloth with a few minor blemishes but clean and sharp, the binding tight and gently rolled. Mild spots to textblock edges and to endpapers, else bright without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), complete with several small nicks and light rubbing, with several tape repairs and reinforcements to verso, but altogether presentable.
Reminiscences of a young child from his peering at the natural world atop a London balcony to his first year as a boarder, told with an unsentimental realism akin to the author’s other works. Combining the poet-naturalist with an evocative sense of the business of rural living, says the front flap, Bell becomes sui generis. This book was to become the precursor to a language of landscape formulated by author Bell and illustrator, John Nash, when they collaborated on the rural classic, Men on the Fields (1939).
BELL, Adrian. The Balcony. London: Cobden-Sanderson. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s salmon cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the charming dust jacket designed by John Nash. A very good copy, the cloth with a few minor blemishes but clean and sharp, the binding tight and gently rolled. Mild spots to textblock edges and to endpapers, else bright without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), complete with several small nicks and light rubbing, with several tape repairs and reinforcements to verso, but altogether presentable.
Reminiscences of a young child from his peering at the natural world atop a London balcony to his first year as a boarder, told with an unsentimental realism akin to the author’s other works. Combining the poet-naturalist with an evocative sense of the business of rural living, says the front flap, Bell becomes sui generis. This book was to become the precursor to a language of landscape formulated by author Bell and illustrator, John Nash, when they collaborated on the rural classic, Men on the Fields (1939).
