The Fox in the Attic. And: The Wooden Shepherdess. At head of title: The Human Predicament

by Richard Hughes

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First edition

First editions. 352, 1 ; x , 389 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in fine dust jackets Fox with faintest traces of wear to spine panel; Shepherdess with wraparaound band . Item #345606 Superior set of the ambitious work which long preoccupied Richard Hughes 1900-1976 , author of A High Wind in Jamaica 1929 . Hughes worked as a bureaucrat in the Admiarly during the secon world war, with little time for his

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