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A Shroud as Well as a Shirt
Inscribed first edition, 1935
Frazer was the working name of James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer (1912-1966). A Shroud as Well as a Shirt was his second work of speculative fiction, a ruthless satire of near-future socialist Britain in which closed universities and compulsory agricultural labor give way, by the novel's end, to a savage feudalism with industry banished entirely.
Warmly inscribed by Frazer on the front free-endpaper: "'Gas and Gaiters' / for Gordon Wheeler / Remembering many mad and delightful hours in the City of the Dreaming, and the Town of the Crooked Spire(s). / His always, / Shamus (James) Frazer / Nov 21st 1935."
Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth. London: Chapman & Hall, 1935. #11397.
Very good.
Warmly inscribed by Frazer on the front free-endpaper: "'Gas and Gaiters' / for Gordon Wheeler / Remembering many mad and delightful hours in the City of the Dreaming, and the Town of the Crooked Spire(s). / His always, / Shamus (James) Frazer / Nov 21st 1935."
Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth. London: Chapman & Hall, 1935. #11397.
Very good.