Winter Movement and other poems.

by BELL, Julian.

$1,022 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Chatto & Windus,, 1930. First edition of the author's first book, "greeted as one of the most promising of its day, and compared to W. H. Auden's Poems (1930)" (ODNB). Julian Bell, son of Clive Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf, published only three works in his lifetime, with a fourth released after he was killed in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The present work "consists largely of poems about the English countryside. They are extremely finished and controlled performances, with a firmness of diction and an exactness of observation, although their inspiration was Georgian rather than modernist" (ODNB). Octavo. Original tan linen, cream paper spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, spare spine label tipped-in at rear. With dust jacket. Head of spine bumped, light foxing to head of boards and text block edges, endpapers browned, contents clean; jacket a little rubbed, spine faded, top edge lightly creased with a couple of tiny nicks, unclipped: a very good copy in near-fine dust jacket.

• Year: 1930
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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