The Croquet Player.
First edition of H.G. Wells' The Croquet Player; in the rare original dust jacket
The Croquet Player.
WELLS, H.G.
$750.00
Item Number: 139227
New York: The Viking Press, 1937.
First American edition of this classic ghost story by the “father of science fiction.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
"You would think it barely possible that there was a new kind of ghost-story to be written, yet that is what Mr. Wells has succeeded in doing, and doing mightily well... The reader will assuredly be grateful to the author for a fable so brilliantly provocative" (Sunday Times).
