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Green Mansions; A Romance of the Tropical Forest
by William Henry Hudson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Heritage Reprints, 1944 The Heritage Reprints, New York. 1944. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1904 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped head, tail, and tips; light dst soiling to board tops; light bottom edge shelfwear. DJ: Good; suntanned spine; missing small pieces at head and tail; wear at tips; several scuffs on rear panel. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board with decorative borders. Pictorial endpapers; tinted textblock top. 346 pp 8vo. This is a work of fiction that stars the author's lost self in a Venezuelan forest on an adventure which may be incredible to experience but which is familiar to reverie and then told as if it were history. The larger story hidden in the book is that Hudson is love with the whole of nature and calling up the days when his love had been fresh and strong and when he was not yet weary of men. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007531
- Title
- Green Mansions; A Romance of the Tropical Forest
- Author
- William Henry Hudson
- Illustrator
- Miguel Covarrubias
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- The Heritage Reprints
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions, Fiction, Venezuelan forest, magic mistress, tropical forest, jungle, butterflies, toucans, monkeys,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
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