The Quaint Companions: with an Introduction by H. G. Wells (Collectible - Read Notes) by Merrick, Leonard - 1924

E. P. Dutton. Good with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. 299 pages. Red cloth boards, clean. This book is about the tragedy of racial miscengenation. H. G. Wells states "It is, perhaps, the most sympathetic and understanding novel, in its intimate everyday way, about the clash of colour and race-prejudice and racial quality that has ever been written in English..." Lee and his son David's conversation about marriage led to Lee saying "Because the coloured man who marries a white girl is a fool, David. He won't be happy." . Contains a small card with the name "Dr Louis Hamman" affixed to the endpaper, with the date 1924 written on the edge of the card. Dr Hamman (1877-1946) was a prestigious physician at The Johns Hopkins University, head of the Phipps Tuberculosis Clinic. Hamman-Rich syndrome is named after Dr Hamman .