H.G. Wells – Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island – First Edition 1928
£85.00
A first edition, first printing of Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells, published by Ernest Benn, London in 1928. A very good copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original brown cloth with gilt titling to the spine, pushing to the spine tips, binding slightly cocked, boards a little rub-worn, toning and foxing to the text block, foxing to the prelims and a former retail label to the rear paste-down.
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells follows Arnold Blettsworthy, who, after a nervous breakdown, sails away seeking recovery. Shipwrecked on Rampole Island, he becomes entangled in a primitive society ruled by superstition and violence. The story blends adventure with psychological exploration, revealing how trauma shapes perception. When Blettsworthy later learns that much of his island experience was delusional, Wells shifts the novel into social satire, critiquing war, modern civilisation and the fragile boundaries between sanity and illusion.
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A first edition, first printing of Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells, published by Ernest Benn, London in 1928. A very good copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original brown cloth with gilt titling to the spine, pushing to the spine tips, binding slightly cocked, boards a little rub-worn, toning and foxing to the text block, foxing to the prelims and a former retail label to the rear paste-down.
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells follows Arnold Blettsworthy, who, after a nervous breakdown, sails away seeking recovery. Shipwrecked on Rampole Island, he becomes entangled in a primitive society ruled by superstition and violence. The story blends adventure with psychological exploration, revealing how trauma shapes perception. When Blettsworthy later learns that much of his island experience was delusional, Wells shifts the novel into social satire, critiquing war, modern civilisation and the fragile boundaries between sanity and illusion.
