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Green Mansions
by HUDSON, W. H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Thick octavo, original olive cloth gilt. Housed in a custom chemise and green cloth slipcase with leather label.
First edition, First issue of Hudson's "romance of the tropical forest," an excellent copy in the original cloth.
"Of all living authors—now that Tolstoy has gone—I could least dispense with W.H. Hudson. Why do I love his writing so? I think because he is, of living writers that I read, the rarest spirit, and has the clearest gift of conveying to me the nature of that spirit… Without apparent effort he takes you with him into a rare, free, natural world, and always you are refreshed, stimulated, enlarged, by going there" (John Galsworthy). "Hudson forms an important link between 19th-century Romanticism and the 20th-century ecological movement. Green Mansions is a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man" (Ian Duncan). In FIRST-ISSUE binding, without the publisher's device on the rear board. A bright near fine copy with slight fading on the bottom spine lettering & Bookplate to front pastedown. Text is unmarked. Sturdy binding. Very light external wear. The first issue binding is very rare now.
Synopsis
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300
- Title
- Green Mansions
- Author
- HUDSON, W. H
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st issue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Cinema
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books LLC, specializes in books from the 16th through 20th century. We stock many books in the field of literature, Western philosophy, Greek classics, the history of ideas, Medicine & Science & fine sets. We are always looking to purchase individual books in our areas of interest.
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