Blackwood

    C.W. Wardlaw, Green Havoc In the Lands of the Caribbean, first edition, 1935

    Natural History

    Wardlaw (C.W.) Green Havoc

    £150


    In the Lands of the Caribbean
    London, Blackwood, 1935.

    First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

    Claude Wilson Wardlaw (1901-85), the Scottish botanist and plant pathologist, recounts his investigation of Panama disease, the fungal blight then devastating banana plantations across the Caribbean and Central America. First edition.

    E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, second impression, 1906

    Modern Literature

    Forster (E.M.) Where Angels Fear to Tread

    £275



    Edinburgh & London, Blackwood, 1906.

    First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine.

    Published when Forster was only 26 years old, Where Angels Fear to Tread immediately established the author as a writer of note and its central theme, of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the English middle class, one that would preoccupy him for much of his career.