The Devil in Woodford Wells. A Fantastic Novel.. This item is unavailable.The Devil in Woodford Wells. A Fantastic Novel.

FIRST EDITION, a couple of very faint spots to final page of text, pp. 244, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few faint spots to edges and endpapers, dustjacket with wartime map on verso, some faint foxing to rear panel, faint waterstain at foot of front flap, very good. His only novel - Hobson was better known as a theatre critic, an early champion of Harold Pinter; he had earlier attended Oriel College, Oxford. The publisher's blurb considers this 'one of the most unusual novels we have published for a long time [.] one of the characters comes from the pages of Sir Max Beerbohm and possibly also out of Hell'.