TURNER, Walter James. Henry Airbubble: In Search of a Circumference to His Breath, being the Second Hemisphere of the History of Henry Airbubble. London: J. M. Dent. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by Edward Bawden. A very near fine copy. The cloth clean, bright and just a trifle rubbed at the white lettering, trivial. The binding tight and square, the topstain still vivid. The contents clean and fine but for mild offsetting to endpapers, with 8pp ads to rear. The dust jacket price-clipped, very slightly scuffed, else a most pleasing copy.
The second volume of Turner’s intended loose trilogy of vague autobiography, mixing humour and fantasy, the first entitled Blow for Balloons, a hinted-at third volume, to be entitled ‘Henry Airbubble ascends the Tertium Quid’, or some such, though not before an intended second volume of this title—neither came to fruition for reasons unknown; he did publish other works, including novels. Turner, perhaps best remembered in his own life as a poet, was general editor of the popular Britain in Pictures series, and editor of The Spectator when he died. He rubbed shoulders with many members of the Bloomsbury Group including Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, and lived with Siegfried Sassoon for a time. A sharp example in the Bawden dust jacket, a relatively early commission for him.
TURNER, Walter James. Henry Airbubble: In Search of a Circumference to His Breath, being the Second Hemisphere of the History of Henry Airbubble. London: J. M. Dent. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by Edward Bawden. A very near fine copy. The cloth clean, bright and just a trifle rubbed at the white lettering, trivial. The binding tight and square, the topstain still vivid. The contents clean and fine but for mild offsetting to endpapers, with 8pp ads to rear. The dust jacket price-clipped, very slightly scuffed, else a most pleasing copy.
The second volume of Turner’s intended loose trilogy of vague autobiography, mixing humour and fantasy, the first entitled Blow for Balloons, a hinted-at third volume, to be entitled ‘Henry Airbubble ascends the Tertium Quid’, or some such, though not before an intended second volume of this title—neither came to fruition for reasons unknown; he did publish other works, including novels. Turner, perhaps best remembered in his own life as a poet, was general editor of the popular Britain in Pictures series, and editor of The Spectator when he died. He rubbed shoulders with many members of the Bloomsbury Group including Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, and lived with Siegfried Sassoon for a time. A sharp example in the Bawden dust jacket, a relatively early commission for him.
