The croquet player

London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s boards, spine label, original illustrated dust jacket complete and unclipped. An excellent copy. First edition of one of Wells’ medical ghost stories/mysteries. From the wrapper: “In a café at Les Noupets, as he comfortably sips his vermouth before lunching with his aunt, the narrator is accosted by a voluble stranger who tells him a strange and terrible story of the haunted countryside of Cainsmarsh, and of how he was finally driven to leave it and put himself in the hands of a nerve-specialist. The narrator, already disturbed and frightened by the tale, meets the nerve-specialist next day and the mystery, instead of being solved, broadens and deepens until it embraces the whole world.”.