COLLIER, John.

£475 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

His Monkey Wife or, Married to a Chimp. First edition of the author's first book, "a wicked and witty satire about a man seduced by a chimpanzee" (ODNB). Bleiler describes John Collier (1902-1980) as "one of the modern masters of the short story and certainly the pre-eminent writer of short fantasies. Fine stylist, remarkable wit and ironist" and His Monkey Wife as a "very amusing irony on shopgirl romances, modern personality types and Bloomsbury intellectualism".

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