BERESFORD, J. D., Seven Bobsworth
BERESFORD, John Davys, Seven Bobsworth. London: Faber and Faber. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by ‘Prangley’. Printed dedication to Walter de la Mare. A very good copy overall, the cloth a trifle toned at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents a touch spotted at textblock edges, with some very sporadic singular spots. The dust jacket clipped with original price of 7s net intact, the spine slightly toned with a little loss to the spine head, other corners and tips bumped, rubbed and a trifle nicked, but a handsome copy overall.
A rather scarce novel by Beresford, about a seemingly idyllic fictional city, Bobsworth Garden City. When the protagonist, Mr. Fiddler, mysteriously dies, it is through his papers that the plot unfolds. Laced with the author’s growing interest in mysticism, we learn Fiddler’s role was in ‘the unpleasant task of eliminating undesirable neighbours’, all for the benefit of the ominous ‘Big Business’ whose sole purpose is, it seems, to convert this rapidly developing town into a first-class residential suburb. Scarce, and missing from various bibliographical lists of Beresford’s works.
BERESFORD, John Davys, Seven Bobsworth. London: Faber and Faber. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by ‘Prangley’. Printed dedication to Walter de la Mare. A very good copy overall, the cloth a trifle toned at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents a touch spotted at textblock edges, with some very sporadic singular spots. The dust jacket clipped with original price of 7s net intact, the spine slightly toned with a little loss to the spine head, other corners and tips bumped, rubbed and a trifle nicked, but a handsome copy overall.
A rather scarce novel by Beresford, about a seemingly idyllic fictional city, Bobsworth Garden City. When the protagonist, Mr. Fiddler, mysteriously dies, it is through his papers that the plot unfolds. Laced with the author’s growing interest in mysticism, we learn Fiddler’s role was in ‘the unpleasant task of eliminating undesirable neighbours’, all for the benefit of the ominous ‘Big Business’ whose sole purpose is, it seems, to convert this rapidly developing town into a first-class residential suburb. Scarce, and missing from various bibliographical lists of Beresford’s works.
BERESFORD, John Davys, Seven Bobsworth. London: Faber and Faber. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by ‘Prangley’. Printed dedication to Walter de la Mare. A very good copy overall, the cloth a trifle toned at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents a touch spotted at textblock edges, with some very sporadic singular spots. The dust jacket clipped with original price of 7s net intact, the spine slightly toned with a little loss to the spine head, other corners and tips bumped, rubbed and a trifle nicked, but a handsome copy overall.
A rather scarce novel by Beresford, about a seemingly idyllic fictional city, Bobsworth Garden City. When the protagonist, Mr. Fiddler, mysteriously dies, it is through his papers that the plot unfolds. Laced with the author’s growing interest in mysticism, we learn Fiddler’s role was in ‘the unpleasant task of eliminating undesirable neighbours’, all for the benefit of the ominous ‘Big Business’ whose sole purpose is, it seems, to convert this rapidly developing town into a first-class residential suburb. Scarce, and missing from various bibliographical lists of Beresford’s works.