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Bell, Gertrude; Bell, Lady (editor)
The Letters of Gertrude Bell
Publisher: Ernest Benn, London;
Date of Publication: 1927
Stock Code: 12200
SECOND SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Octavo, pp. 633, [1]. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped printed buff dust-jacket with titles and decoration in red. A clean bright copy with no annotation or inscriptions, just a hint of light foxing to textblock edge. Dust-jacket lightly soiled and spine a little toned; minor nicks & creases to spine tips. Single volume edition of collected letters by the remarkable explorer, poet, mountaineer, art critic, archaeologist and diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926). One of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century, against the odds of her gender, she was fiercely admired by male contemporaries who described her as an “expert as recognised by experts” in all her numerous fields of achievements. Edited by her stepmother Florence Bell (1851-1930) and originally published the year after her death, the letters cover Bell’s childhood to the end of her life. £30.00