NEIL BELL. — Ten Short Stories. (INSCRIBED)

Golden Gallery Press, 'Clipper Books' series, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "Dear Dora, I hope you'll like these. At least no-one else could have written them: no, in a way, they're unique. Yours Neil Bell". Slim 8vo. 63pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Photographic portrait frontispiece. The boards somewhat rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips and with a touch of browning to the half-title (which serves at the front endpaper). A nice bright copy. A two-page preface by the author (where he includes Henry Williamson amongst a list of short fiction authors he admires) precedes ten stories, nine of them reprinted from earlier collections. The author, born Stephen Henry Critten, was a prolific short story writer, predominantly under the pseudonyms 'Stephen Southwold' and 'Neil Bell' (he eventually changed his name to the former)., Good