Brown Douglas and Serpell Christopher (3 results)

No. 13. Condition: good/acceptable. good The British Publishers Guild no. 13 - 1941 edition paperback book with acceptable d/w In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp. 251. Yellow cloth covers. Title, Publisher and Swastika in red on spine. Covers stained, Spine and details faded. Corners adn spine neds lightly bumped & rubbed. Small half inch split along part of upper rear spine edge. Occasional internal spot. Else internally good+. The book poses the question what would happen if Hitler was to win the war. In the foreword and dedication he dedicates the book to those who will not let this happen," The exceedingly rare first edition.…

FIRST EDITION, pp. 251, crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in red, very light spotting to cloth, top edge a little dusty, dustjacket bright with merest hint of sunning to backstrip panel, very good. A wartime alternative-future novel by two journalists, depicting Britain under Nazi rule - narrated by a New Zealander, 'writing retrospectively as an eyewitness from the security of the Antipodes' (blurb); subsequently published under the title 'If Hitler Comes'. The blurb figures it as not so much 'a thriller [.] as a flesh-creeper'; T.S. Eliot, possibly the author of that blurb, wrote in his reader's report for Faber that it 'kept my attention like a horrible dream'. Serpell was a Yorkshireman, who attended Merton College, Oxford; his co-author is more obscure. The book is scarce.…