Adrian Bell, a collection of 32 titles, including nearly all...

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Adrian Bell, a collection of 32 titles, including nearly all published by him, plus some biographies, collections of short stories by countryside writers including Bell etc: 'Corduroy; Silver Ley; The Cherry Tree', illustrated Harry Becker, London, Country Book Club, 1951, de luxe illustrated edition, 3 volumes, colour & black & white plates throughout as called for, uniform original cloth, dust wrappers, Bell's classic rural trilogy; 'Silver Ley', Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by Bell to FFEP, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb, authors 2nd book; 'The Cherry Tree', 1932, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with part loss at head of spine); 'Folly Field', 1933, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with neat tape repair/reinforcement to spine); 'The Balcony', 1934, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by John Nash); 'The Open Air an Anthology of English Country Life', 1936, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'By-Road', 1949, 3rd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Shepherd's Farm', 1939, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with some small part losses); 'Apple Acre', 1947 reprint, original cloth; 'Sunrise to Sunset', 1944, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Budding Morrow', 1946, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Asgeir Scott; 'The Black donkey', 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Flower & The Wheel', 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (with some small part losses); 'The Path by the Window', 1952, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'Music in the Morning', 1954, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'A Young Man's Fancy', 1955, 1st edition in wrapper; 'A Suffolk Harvest', 1956 1st edition in wrapper; 'The Mill House', 1958 1st in wrapper; 'My Own Master', 1961 1st in wrapper; 'A Street in Suffolk', 1964 1st in wrapper; 'A Countryman's Notebook', Ipswich, Boydell Press, 1975, 1st edition in wrapper; 'The Green Bond', Boydell Press, 1976 1st in wrapper, Adrian Bell autograph postcard signed loosely inserted; plus proof copy of 'Music in the Morning', 1st Reynolds Stone illustrated edition of 'The Open Air', 1949, in wrapper, 'Countryside Mood; Countryside Character; Country Company', 1945, 1946, 1949, 1st editions, 3 volumes, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, contributions from Adrian Bell, J. Wentworth Day, Henry Williamson, A.G. Street, H.J. Massingham etc, plus 3 others. Adrian Bell came to Suffolk from London in 1920. He was first a farm pupil and then a farmer and lived in various parts of the County for the next 60 years until his death in September 1980. During that time he wrote 25 books, most of which were based on his life and work in Suffolk. His work on farms included the rebuilding of a near-derelict 89-acre (36 ha) smallholding at Redisham, near Beccles. His first book, Corduroy, published in 1930, vividly describes his early years on the land when farming depended on the horse to do what man could not. He also contributed many articles to various magazines and for 30 years his 'Countryman's Notebook' was a feature of the Eastern Daily Press, he was also the first 'setter' of the Times crossword and is credited with help develop its cryptic style. (32)