THE CROQUET PLAYER A STORY

by Wells, H.G.:

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Book Description

London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.. Cloth, paper spine label. Light foxing to fore and lower edge, otherwise about fine in very faintly dust-smudged Harold Jones dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Wells on the half-title to Siegfried Sassoon: "Siegfried from H.G. with love to George." Laid in are two a.ls.s. from Wells to Sassoon, London, 28 October and 1 November 1933, 5pp. small octavo, relating to the organization of a dinner party, including Cynthia Asquith among the guests. In June of 1917, Sassoon sent a copy of his statement against the war to Wells, among others, and Wells was supportive. Sassoon visited him in 1922, recording that "I am grateful to (and full of admiration for) the bristling pugnacious little man for the way he succeeds in influencing (and creating) public opinion in the direction of sanity...," and they remained in contact in later years. "George" was Sassoon's son, born 30 October of 1936, who pursued a career tangent much closer to Wells's than his father's. With the Sassoon Library dispersal label on the front pastedown.

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