h g woodley henry george wilkins (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - David Winter, Dundee, 1948. 1st ed. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on ffep: 'For Sir Hector, Just for fun - and with all good wishes from H.G. Woodley'. Very good condition, brown boards with gilt lettering to front board, tanned ffep, photo of author. Tight binding. Henry George Wilkins left London to settle in rural Scotland. Writing under the pseudonym H.G. Woodley he is best known for his treatise 'Certified' describing life in a mental hospital. H.G. Wells referred to Woodley as 'the other H.G.W.' and offered to publish 'Certified' at his own expense, and at the time of his death was about to write a preface to Woodley's 'That Which is Caesar's'. Inscribed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION. Half title, photo front. Orig. green cloth. Black & blue d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed & dusted. In which Woodley reveals his real name and revisits the asylum he memorialised in Certified; with some reminiscences, but largely a plea for more humanitarian treatment of the residents. Wells was an admirer, and referred to Woodley as 'The other H.G.W.'.

FIRST EDITION. Half title, wartime economy paper. Orig. blue cloth. Yellow printed d.w., unclipped; sl. faded & a little dusted in places. Publisher's archive copy stamp to titlepage, sl. offset to verso of half title. A sensitively handled and precise account of the author's experiences in what was then called a lunatic asylum. H.G. Wells' puff quote calls it 'an urgently necessary story which will alleviate the misery of multitudes of entrapped people'.