CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS
first edition
1961 · London
by Wyndham, John (pseudonym of John Beynon Harris)
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects six stories including "A Long Spoon." According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella, "Consider Her Ways," in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 261. Faint ghosts on free endpapers from jacket flaps, a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some soiling to rear panel and clipped price. (#74086) (Inventory #: 74086)