CARR, Robert S. The Rampant Age
CARR, Robert S. The Rampant Age. London: Heinemann. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in lime green to the spine and front board, in the pink dust jacket with wraparound band. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. A few faint spot to the textblock edges, but the contents fine. The dust jacket priced 7s 6d net to spine, some fading and discolouration, a couple of tiny nicks, with the publisher’s scarce yellow wraparound band.
A ‘brilliant and terrible indictment of modern America’, or more, the lost youth of the Jazz Age culture. Carr was a precocious eighteen-year-old schoolboy when Heinemann published this, his first novel. He had a short story published in Weird Tales three years prior—the printed dedication here is to that magazine’s editor. Carr evidently saw in his generation a loose moral code and a slippery open law-defiance, and blames in part the indulgent, neglectful elders who turned their backs on them. The novel was immediately adapted to the screen in the 1930 film of the same name. Though undoubtedly talented, his output, usually in the science fiction genre, is relatively meagre. He became admired as Dr. Carr for his science fiction conspiracy theories and outspoken pseudo-scientific bravado, gaining quite the following. In 1974, he famously accused the government of covering up the discovery, capture and autopsy of twelve aliens. His son later debunked his authority within his conspiracy theorist following, confirming he was not in fact a doctor and had never actually attended college.
CARR, Robert S. The Rampant Age. London: Heinemann. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in lime green to the spine and front board, in the pink dust jacket with wraparound band. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. A few faint spot to the textblock edges, but the contents fine. The dust jacket priced 7s 6d net to spine, some fading and discolouration, a couple of tiny nicks, with the publisher’s scarce yellow wraparound band.
A ‘brilliant and terrible indictment of modern America’, or more, the lost youth of the Jazz Age culture. Carr was a precocious eighteen-year-old schoolboy when Heinemann published this, his first novel. He had a short story published in Weird Tales three years prior—the printed dedication here is to that magazine’s editor. Carr evidently saw in his generation a loose moral code and a slippery open law-defiance, and blames in part the indulgent, neglectful elders who turned their backs on them. The novel was immediately adapted to the screen in the 1930 film of the same name. Though undoubtedly talented, his output, usually in the science fiction genre, is relatively meagre. He became admired as Dr. Carr for his science fiction conspiracy theories and outspoken pseudo-scientific bravado, gaining quite the following. In 1974, he famously accused the government of covering up the discovery, capture and autopsy of twelve aliens. His son later debunked his authority within his conspiracy theorist following, confirming he was not in fact a doctor and had never actually attended college.
CARR, Robert S. The Rampant Age. London: Heinemann. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in lime green to the spine and front board, in the pink dust jacket with wraparound band. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. A few faint spot to the textblock edges, but the contents fine. The dust jacket priced 7s 6d net to spine, some fading and discolouration, a couple of tiny nicks, with the publisher’s scarce yellow wraparound band.
A ‘brilliant and terrible indictment of modern America’, or more, the lost youth of the Jazz Age culture. Carr was a precocious eighteen-year-old schoolboy when Heinemann published this, his first novel. He had a short story published in Weird Tales three years prior—the printed dedication here is to that magazine’s editor. Carr evidently saw in his generation a loose moral code and a slippery open law-defiance, and blames in part the indulgent, neglectful elders who turned their backs on them. The novel was immediately adapted to the screen in the 1930 film of the same name. Though undoubtedly talented, his output, usually in the science fiction genre, is relatively meagre. He became admired as Dr. Carr for his science fiction conspiracy theories and outspoken pseudo-scientific bravado, gaining quite the following. In 1974, he famously accused the government of covering up the discovery, capture and autopsy of twelve aliens. His son later debunked his authority within his conspiracy theorist following, confirming he was not in fact a doctor and had never actually attended college.