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GREEN MANSIONS, A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST
by HUDSON, W.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Almost No Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Duckworth and Company, 1926. Bound by SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE of London. Covers with French fillet bordering with corner rosettes. Panelled spine with red leather labels, elaborate gilt designs. Inner dentelles. Spine is sunned to tan, as is quite common with green leathers. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small pleasant book-plate on front pastedown. This English edition of the Hudson novel is illustrated by Keith Henderson. There are ten double-page images, two single-page, and 22 chapter heads. First edition was published in 1904. 325pp. William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an English author, naturalist, and ornithologist. This novel is an exotic romance about a traveller to the Guyana jungle in SE Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima. A fine early twentieth century novel in an equally fine binding!. Illustrated Edition. Full Emerald Smooth Morocco. Almost No Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014175
- Title
- GREEN MANSIONS, A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST
- Author
- HUDSON, W.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Almost No Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Illustrated Edition
- Publisher
- Duckworth and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Sangorski and Sutcliffe, Novels
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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