Bedlam House

Dacre Balsdon [John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon]

Published by Jarrolds, United Kingdom, 1947

About this Item

1947 first edition. Hardback. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. 192 pages. Edgewear with loss to jacket (now in protective sleeve). Light discolouration/staining to boards. Partial tanning to half-title, last page and rear endpaper. Corner creases and 15 mm tear to bottom page 105. John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, FBA (1901 ? 1977), known as J. P. V. D. Balsdon in his academic work and otherwise as Dacre Balsdon, was an English ancient historian and writer. He wrote novels using the name Dacre Balsdon. His SF novels are humorous satires on contemporary life. The most imaginative, Sell England? (1936), is a Dystopia set 1000 years hence in which the UK is inhabited solely by a decadnt aristocracy, while the other echelons of society live in Africa under a totalitarian dictatorship. His two educational satires, Have a New Master (1935) and The Day They Burned Miss Termag are set, respectively, in a school 30 years hence and in an Oxford of the immediate future. Seller Inventory # 001069

Bibliographic Details

Title: Bedlam House

Publisher: Jarrolds, United Kingdom

Publication Date: 1947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good