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The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself
by Hudson, W.H
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- first
- Condition
- Dark red cloth. Very good (some scattered foxing)
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About This Item
London: Duckworth, 1904. First edition with this title, (originally published in 1885), with the author's revisions and a new introduction. viii, 351, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dark red cloth. Very good (some scattered foxing). First edition with this title, (originally published in 1885), with the author's revisions and a new introduction. viii, 351, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hudson's outstanding picaresque tale of intrigue and travel in Uruguay, and a key text in the traditoonal of magical realist literature. Published in 1885 as The Purple Land That Endland Lost, and reissued here with a new introduction, in 1904, when Duckworth published Green Mansions. Payne A1c
Synopsis
This work was first issued in 1885, by Messrs. Sampson Low, in two slim volumes, with the longer, and to most persons, enigmatical title of The Purple Land That England Lost. A purple land may be found in almost any region of the globe, and 'tis of our gains, not our losses, we keep count. A few notices of the book appeared in the papers, one or two of the more serious literary journals reviewing it (not favourably) under the heading of Travels and Geography; but the reading public cared not to buy, and it very shortly fell into oblivion.
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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Title
- The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself
- Author
- Hudson, W.H
- Format/Binding
- Viii, 351, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Dark red cloth. Very good (some scattered foxing)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition with this title, (originally published in 1885), w
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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