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GREEN MANSIONS. A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST.
by Hudson, William Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "REPRINT," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus, Reprint.* Pub: 1925 (1904).* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth covered boards with small, gilt title & decorative frame to spine strip and blind impressed logo to face. No bumps, minor rubs, some wear to head & tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text, slight age to page margins. Considerable toning to all edges. VG* Illustrations: None apart from b/w line drawn vignette to title page.* Pages: 515 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of south-eastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest-dwelling girl named Rima. The principal characters are Abel, Rima, Nuflo, Cla-Cla and Kua-kó. Originally published in 1904 it was turned into a film with Audrey Hepburn in 1959. It is thought that the book sparked the nature conservation movement as it takes place in the stunning untouched forests of South America. A master of natural history writing, W.H. Hudson forms a link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement.* A NEAR VG+ copy with some age and wear reducing it to VG. No dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9117
- Title
- GREEN MANSIONS. A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST.
- Author
- Hudson, William Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus, Reprint 1925
- Publisher
- London: Duckworth 1911.
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 317
- Date Published
- 1925-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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