THE GRASSHOPPERS COME.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First. Small octavo. Purple and black pebble cloth, gilt spine. [8],101,[3] pp. Six woodcuts by the author's first wife, R. A. Garnett. Clean and bright throughout, bubbled cloth along spine on upper panel, pale tidemark on dust jacket at toe of spine with no evidence of such elsewhere, tiny closed tear at top edge, enclosed in Brodart. Very good or better.
First trade edition. The Grasshoppers Come follows pilot Jimmy Wetz on a record-breaking flight across Europe and Asia with two wealthy passengers. After an engine-clogging swarm of locusts forces a crash landing in a remote Asian desert, Wetz is left abandoned and injured, surviving solely by harvesting and roasting the insects until his rescue The novella earned its spot in the classic speculative/weird fiction bibliography, E. F. Bleiler’s, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature, 1948, p. 123, for its surreal atmosphere, nightmarish insect catastrophe, and bizarre desert survival scenario. Very good / Very good. Item #880
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