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London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. First Edition. First impression. 12mo (19cm). Patterned paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 3s.6d. net at base of front flap), spine a shade darkened, lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small nicks to extremities, Very Good. CURREY (1979) p.517. BARRON (Anatomy of Wonder) 2-127. BLEILER.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 81 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Croquet - players - Great Britain ; Fiction. Villages - Great Britain ; Fiction.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. [Psychological Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 82 [4]. Publisher's brown mottled (almost leopard print) cloth with a plain paper title label to spine. With the pink and green-illustrated dust-jacket by Harold Jones, priced at 3/6. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Slight offsetting to endpapers and very light spotting to edges. Jacket quite heavily toned with some light chipping and a few closed tears to edges. Near fine. A late but important Wells fantasy, 'The Croquet Player' is an allegorical satire about a man fleeing from his evil dreams, comparable with 'The Island of Dr. Moreau' or 'Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island'.