BELL, Neil. Life Comes to Seathorpe
BELL, Neil. Life Comes to Seathorpe. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1946. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the wraparound dust jacket, uncredited. A good or better copy, the cloth a little discoloured at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. Some light foxing to the textblock edges, and less so within, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with several small chips, nicks and a little loss around the spine head and tail. Most edges rubbed, but quite uncommon in any better condition.
An entirely unassuming novel by Bell, just one of the pseudonyms of Stephen Southwold. Bell wrote some 75 novels in around 35 years which might lead one to question the strength of his output. That said, this novel rolls along gently for a while, in a sleepy Sussex seaside town, before an immediate turn of events involving a Wellsian madcap scientist and his inhumane experiments. Good in the skim-read, perhaps a little overwritten.
BELL, Neil. Life Comes to Seathorpe. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1946. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the wraparound dust jacket, uncredited. A good or better copy, the cloth a little discoloured at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. Some light foxing to the textblock edges, and less so within, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with several small chips, nicks and a little loss around the spine head and tail. Most edges rubbed, but quite uncommon in any better condition.
An entirely unassuming novel by Bell, just one of the pseudonyms of Stephen Southwold. Bell wrote some 75 novels in around 35 years which might lead one to question the strength of his output. That said, this novel rolls along gently for a while, in a sleepy Sussex seaside town, before an immediate turn of events involving a Wellsian madcap scientist and his inhumane experiments. Good in the skim-read, perhaps a little overwritten.
BELL, Neil. Life Comes to Seathorpe. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1946. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the wraparound dust jacket, uncredited. A good or better copy, the cloth a little discoloured at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. Some light foxing to the textblock edges, and less so within, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with several small chips, nicks and a little loss around the spine head and tail. Most edges rubbed, but quite uncommon in any better condition.
An entirely unassuming novel by Bell, just one of the pseudonyms of Stephen Southwold. Bell wrote some 75 novels in around 35 years which might lead one to question the strength of his output. That said, this novel rolls along gently for a while, in a sleepy Sussex seaside town, before an immediate turn of events involving a Wellsian madcap scientist and his inhumane experiments. Good in the skim-read, perhaps a little overwritten.