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Bell, Clive ~ Poems

Hogarth Press : 1921

The First UK Printing published by The Hogarth Press in 1921. Original Wraps. Limited to 350 Copies handprinted by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. 8vo. 29 pp. + 1 pp. of adverts. The BOOK is in Very Good condition retaining the original pink stitching. Lettered and with a clover design in red on the front cover. The stiff card covers have some moderate edge wear. The covers are sunned and have some occasional marking. There is an ink stain to the the rear cover. Internally the pages are complete but are spotted. With poems dedicated to Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, wife of John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf. Woolf noted in her Diary, 'Clive's poems have gone today to the Reviewers; our publishing day being December the 1st' (Woolmer 12). The rear lower cover has a sticker on the verso from Madge Jenison's Sunwise Turn Bookshop. In her autobiography 'Sunwise Turn : A human comedy of bookselling', Jenison dedicated the books to 'Mr Clive Bell, who, though I have never seen him, founded this bookshop because he wrote a book'. She was referring to Bell's best selling title 'Art' published in 1914. Scarce

BINDING: Softcover
CONDITION: Very Good

£350

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Keywords: Bell, Bloomsbury, Hogarth, Lopokova, Woolf


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