Author: WELLS, H.G.
Title: The Croquet Player
Description: New York, The Viking Press . 1933, First U.S. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Clifton Line. Book, 98 pp. With Ills. by Clifton Line . Though slightly discoloured, a wonderfull copy of the 1St. US-Edition of a collectible H.G.Wells. Wrapper gone. First American Edition of this allegorical satire about a man fleeing from his evil dreams, written while Wells was under the influence of the Spanish Civil War. "A fantasy on the contrast between a barbarian 'presence' in the marshes and the narrator's over-civilised insensibility to this danger" (Wells Soc.). Fine/No Jacket.

Keywords: Clifton Linewells, H.G.


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