The Fool Hath Said by Beverly Nichols - First printing from 1936 - ODJ
The Fool Hath Said
by Beverley Nichols
First Printing · 1936 · Hardcover with Original Dust Jacket
Overview
Offered here is a First Printing (1936) of The Fool Hath Said by Beverley Nichols, complete with its original dust jacket.
Nichols was widely known for wit and style, but this is him at his most serious and searching—a candid “treasure hunt” for faith written in the voice of the modern skeptic. He begins from disbelief, staring straight at the immensities of space and time, and then does something unusual: rather than shrugging and moving on, he starts the hunt. The search narrows to the story of Christ, which he examines with a sharp, almost prosecutorial scrutiny—until he arrives, step by step, at the unsettling conclusion that disbelief can be harder to sustain than belief.
What makes the book especially relevant to recovery-history collectors is where Nichols places this journey in the spiritual landscape of the 1930s. He doesn’t treat Christianity as an abstract doctrine; he presses it into the real world—war, money, sex, daily conduct—and he engages directly with the era’s “Group Movement,” the Oxford Group current that drew enormous attention at the time and formed part of the wider spiritual atmosphere many early A.A. members encountered in the mid-1930s. Nichols wasn’t merely writing about that movement as a distant observer; he moved in those circles and wrote about the Oxford Group as a real, lived influence during the period when spiritual seekers were looking for something practical enough to change a life.
The result is a lively, unexpectedly modern book: a 1936 document of spiritual searching that reads with energy, argument, and conviction—an excellent companion volume for shelves that explore Oxford Group culture, early A.A. spiritual roots, and the broader 1930s “seeker” moment.
Edition Details
Title: The Fool Hath Said
Author: Beverley Nichols
Publication Year: 1936
Printing: First Printing
Format: Hardcover
Dust Jacket: Original dust jacket present
Condition
Book: Very Good condition with minimal wear to the cloth. Handwriting on the first page. No other writing or markings noted.
Dust Jacket: Good condition with edge wear consistent with age and handling.
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A strong 1936 first printing in jacket—an honest, spirited faith-quest with real Oxford Group–era relevance, and a fascinating window into the spiritual climate that surrounded the earliest days of A.A.
