The Old Men At the Zoo

E-100: Viking Adult. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Viking Press, New York. 1961. 352 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970–73) , this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy – the fantasy of war. This tense and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma. E-100; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages .