In "The Fox in the Attic", Richard Hughes, who had gained fame for his previous novel, "A High Wind in Jamaica", presents an intense historal novel about the years leading up to Hitler's 'beer cellear putsch. the novel is a close reading of the events, and was meant as a philosophical commentary about good and evil, and, as the jacket blurb says, "the need for persons to be very clear about the boundaries of their identity." It is also a study of the "horrors of modern ideological fanaticism". Says the blurb, "In the young fanatic Wolff, the 'fox in the attic' of the title, the author gives us a study of an utterly dislocated personality - Germany's nationalist madness incarnate - which is completely convincing ..." (from a review by John Lehmann in "The Broadsheet"

SERIES : The Human Predicament
TITLE : The Fox in the Attic (first volume in the series, of which only two were published)
AUTHOR : Richard Hughes (1900 - 1976)
IMPRINT : World Books Reprint Society Ltd.
PLACE : London
DATE : (1962)
EDITION : Reprint - the Reprint Society was a book club

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

Trade hardcover; 286 pages; approximately 4 3/4" x 7 1/4" ; cream boards with 1/4 red paper-covered spine; top edge dyeddark grayprinted dust-jacket; Author's photo on rear flap

CONDITION

A CLEAN AND SOLID SPECIMEN WITH THE FOLLOWING NOTED:

BOARDS : Bright and clean

SPINE : Bright and clean

HINGES / BINDING : Solid

TEXT-BLOCK EDGES : Clean

END PAPERS : Clean and unmarked

INTERIOR : Clean and presentable throughout with negligible signs of use

DUST JACKET : A bit of edge wear, including a small tear to the bottom edge of the front panel- wear is most noticeable at spine extremities and flap extremities - mild surface rub - looks decent under protective mylar cover

A CLEAN, HANDSOME COPY.