BELLOC, Hilaire (1870-1953). Proofs, with extensive autograph revisions, of The County of Sussex (1936), autograph corrections to virtually every page, including revision of phrases, additions of sentences in the margins, and of new paragraphs on additional slips pasted to pp.4, 14, 40, 75, & 119, the proof comprising 190 printed pages , the conclusion on nine leaves, 4to in the hand of Mrs Mervyn Herbert, with further autograph emendations and one additional slip; in a morocco-backed box; together with Hilaire Belloc. The County of Sussex . London: Cassell, 1936. First edition, inscribed by the author to Maurice Baring; and an autograph letter signed (with initials) by Belloc to Duff Cooper, on board the SS Patria off Greece, Good Friday 1935, describing his experience of Greece and commenting on the military situation, 2 pages, 4to ; and Hilaire Belloc. A Remaining Christmas . Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976. The proofs of Belloc's great hymn to Sussex are so heavily revised (especially in the early sections) as to constitute almost an author's manuscript. Sussex was the county to which Belloc was 'brought by my family as a little child, and where I have lived all my life'. His preface describes the evolution of the book through heavy reworking of an early anonymous text ( Sussex painted by Wilfrid Ball , 1906): 'Its purpose is to make known Sussex to those who have not known it, through its physical character and its past. The moment is opportune, for Sussex is in peril of dissolution, and anything that can help to preserve the memory at least of what Sussex was, is worth while'.
BELLOC, Hilaire (1870-1953). Proofs, with extensive autograph revisions, of The County of Sussex (1936), autograph corrections to virtually every page, including revision of phrases, additions of sentences in the margins, and of new paragraphs on additional slips pasted to pp.4, 14, 40, 75, & 119, the proof comprising 190 printed pages , the conclusion on nine leaves, 4to in the hand of Mrs Mervyn Herbert, with further autograph emendations and one additional slip; in a morocco-backed box; together with Hilaire Belloc. The County of Sussex . London: Cassell, 1936. First edition, inscribed by the author to Maurice Baring; and an autograph letter signed (with initials) by Belloc to Duff Cooper, on board the SS Patria off Greece, Good Friday 1935, describing his experience of Greece and commenting on the military situation, 2 pages, 4to ; and Hilaire Belloc. A Remaining Christmas . Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976. The proofs of Belloc's great hymn to Sussex are so heavily revised (especially in the early sections) as to constitute almost an author's manuscript. Sussex was the county to which Belloc was 'brought by my family as a little child, and where I have lived all my life'. His preface describes the evolution of the book through heavy reworking of an early anonymous text ( Sussex painted by Wilfrid Ball , 1906): 'Its purpose is to make known Sussex to those who have not known it, through its physical character and its past. The moment is opportune, for Sussex is in peril of dissolution, and anything that can help to preserve the memory at least of what Sussex was, is worth while'.
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