1928 Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of the work.

In publisher's original brown cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Irish artist Sir William Orpen, the most prolific war artist sent by Britain to the Western Front. 

The narrative depicts protagonist Arnold Blettsworthy, a man of culture and refinement, becoming stranded on the remote Rampole Island, of which the only only inhabitants are a group of cannibals. 

Written by H.G. Wells, a prolific English writer with over fifty novels and dozens of short stories.