Buy this book on-line E.A.BELL : Poems and a Dream. (INSCRIBED)Privately printed and bound for the author by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd, Eton College [1926].
First edition - a presentation copy, identified at No. 1 [from an edition of circa 44 copies] and inscribed: "Robert Rawstorne d.d. E.A.B., Eton July 1926". Slim 8vo. 35pp. Half morocco, gilt lettered at the spine with two raised bands, marbled endpapers and a gilt top edge. Some quite light spotting throughout. A very good copy. A dedicatory verse precedes various poems, sonnets, rhymes and Latin translations, plus a ten-page dialogue. Laid-in is a five-part manuscript poem also by Bell which references the recipient of his inscription. Edward Allen Bell, brother of the Bishop of Chichester, was educated at Westminster and Oxford, and later was a master at Giggleswick School (he penned a history of the school in 1912). He taught history at Eton for several years before moving on to become the headmaster of St. Bees School in 1926. This selection of his verse was "Collected and printed as a Leaving Book to his Pupil Room and three other Eton friends on his departure from Eton for St. Bees, Cumberland".. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of E.A.BELL : Poems and a Dream. (INSCRIBED). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, out-of-print books, livres illustrées, libri rari and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |