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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- Cloth spine, patterned paper boards, printed spine label. Very good in original rose pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly toned
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About This Item
A charming copy of this first illustrated edition, with a proof of the dust jacket illustration (a variation of the portrait of Paquita facing page 26), tipped to the front flyleaf, and inscribed by the artist on the pastedown: "for Her from Him with all his love"
Keith Henderson (1883-1982) was a Scottish artist and illustrator. he saw active servie in the first world war and published Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front (1917), the year he married Helen Knox-Shaw at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. He illustrated many books, including Green Mansions (1926) and several by E.R. Eddison: The Worm Ouroboros (1922), Styrbiorn the Strong (1922), and Mistress of Mistresses (1935). Payne A1i
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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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 365263
- 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
- Illustrated by Keith Henderson, with 52 woodblock illustrations (13 full page portrait plates on calendered paper, 39 vignettes
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth spine, patterned paper boards, printed spine label. Very good in original rose pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly toned
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First illustrated edition
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- British | British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Literature;
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