81pp. Hardcover binding with dust jacket. Condition: Overall very good. Light rubbing and spots of edgewear to dust jacket. Jacket has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve after photos were taken. Very slight spots of sunning to top and tail of spine. Bottom edge deckled. Text is clean. Well bound.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croquet_Player: The Croquet Player is a 1936 novella by H. G. Wells, "a sort of ghost story." It has been called "a short allegory written under the stimulus of the Spanish War." Dave Langford reviewed The Croquet Player for White Dwarf #60, and stated that "Its evocation of nameless evil haunting English marshland is better than anything Lovecraft could do; but the horror relates to pre-historic savageries of our ancestors, a haunting [...] from deep inside our own minds. As civilization totters, the blood-spattered caveman begins to re-emerge. Read this; remember what happened soon after its publication; look around you today; and allow yourself a shudder." The Croquet Player was serialized in the London Evening Standard and was "fairly widely read"; J.B. Priestley praised it and compared it to Thomas Mann's 1929 novella Mario and the Magician.
Size: 8vo (19,4 x 13cm)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
