The Imitation Man.

Notes

A scarce wartime paperback printing of this 1931 science-fiction novel by pacifist social reformer and Head Man of The Kindred of The Kibbo Kift, John Hargrave (1894-1982). 'An experimental scientist successfully follows Paracelsus's recipe for a homunculus. This creature – physically magnificent but mindless – soon proves capable of a kind of Telepathy, picking up the thoughts of those around it; when enough minds have joined together, Charles Homunculus Chapman becomes the housing of a sort of Hive Mind which briefly owns the world. But his/its marriage to the sister of the scientist who created him proves fatal: the act of Sex burns him to ash' (Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction).
Library Hub records no copies of this paperback, issued by Wells Gardner and Darton under their short-lived paperback imprint Big Ben Books, with Worldcat adding 4 copies, at Harvard, California, Calgary and Sydney, Australia.