WELLS, Herbert George. The Brothers. London: Chatto and Windus. 1938. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown boards lettered in gilt over blue to spine panel, in the wonderful dust jacket designed by Harold Jones. A very good copy. The boards clean and bright, very slightly bumped to extremities. The binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean with mild scattered foxing to prelims, very occasionally elsewhere, without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net) with two small chips to spine foot and front panel lower edge, other corners, tips, and joints gently rubbed. A pleasing copy overall.
One of Wells’ lesser known novels which sits alongside The Croquet Player (1936) and Star Begotten (1937). This one an allegorical political fantasy, the eponymous brothers, separated at birth, representing two opposing political systems and, each learning of this shadowed sibling, must overcome difference. Like the two aforementioned companion volumes, Wells was evidently influenced by the raging Spanish Civil War, and here seems to decry combatants of both sides, writers, artists and thinkers alike some of whom Wells would’ve known well. The jacket designer, the inimitable Harold Jones, also produced the jacket for Star Begotten.
WELLS, Herbert George. The Brothers. London: Chatto and Windus. 1938. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown boards lettered in gilt over blue to spine panel, in the wonderful dust jacket designed by Harold Jones. A very good copy. The boards clean and bright, very slightly bumped to extremities. The binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean with mild scattered foxing to prelims, very occasionally elsewhere, without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net) with two small chips to spine foot and front panel lower edge, other corners, tips, and joints gently rubbed. A pleasing copy overall.
One of Wells’ lesser known novels which sits alongside The Croquet Player (1936) and Star Begotten (1937). This one an allegorical political fantasy, the eponymous brothers, separated at birth, representing two opposing political systems and, each learning of this shadowed sibling, must overcome difference. Like the two aforementioned companion volumes, Wells was evidently influenced by the raging Spanish Civil War, and here seems to decry combatants of both sides, writers, artists and thinkers alike some of whom Wells would’ve known well. The jacket designer, the inimitable Harold Jones, also produced the jacket for Star Begotten.
