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Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Tela editorial roja; título dorado en lomera. Un poco deslucido. Insertado suelto: una tarjeta postal con retrato del autor.viii, 355 pp; 13 retratos fuera texto y 39 ilustraciones en negro entre texto.Primera novela del célebre autor. 'Púrpura,' del título, se refiere al derramamiento innecesario de sangre en las guerras civiles de Uruguay. La primera edición apareció en 1885, ésta con 52 bellas ilustraciones de Keith Henderson.
Seller: Paul Orssich HISPANIC STUDIES, LONDON, United Kingdom
Hudson, W. H.. The Purple Land. Duckworth, London, 1929.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: "Being the narrative of one Richard Lamb's adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as told by himself." Reads as fiction so presumably Hudson is actually the protagonist here. Binding firm, with purple cloth spine and purple marbled boards. There is a little wear to the edges and the cloth spine is lightly faded and somewhat mottled in appearance. Text firm, bright and clean apart from some foxing to endpapers and to half title page. Bookplate of A de Bethune Morgan to FPDEP. Head page edges tinted purple, side and lower have a little speckling and darkening. Large, rather heavy-handed but striking woodcuts of animals and plants and also many portraits of the various young ladies encountered on the way.these seem to have made more of an impression on the purported author than anything else. Hudson's first book, revised by himself 45 years after its first rather unsuccessful publishing.
Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom
Hudson, W.H.. The Purple Land. Duckworth, 1929.
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Condition: Good
Description: The Purple Land: being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental in South America, as told by Himself. London, 1929. Duckworth. Primera edición ilustrada. Holandesa, tela y papel dorado. Ilustrado por Keith Henderson. Texto en inglés.
Seller: Ubú Libros, Otura, GRANA, Spain
Hudson, W. H.. The Purple Land. Duckworth, London, 1929.
Price: US$34.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original quarter purple cloth with decorative boards, gilt titles, purple topstain. Spine sunned, crimped to ends, slightly softened. Bookplate to fep. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is sunned/splashed to spine, mildly edgeworn. First illustrated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Description: Hb in Dw 368pp frontis plate and Illustrations Spine to book somewhat sunned o/w A Vg/Vg copy and Uncommon In original Dw
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hudson, W.H.. The purple land. London: Duckworth, 1929.
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Description: Jacket frayed and torn, with ink spot on front cover. Corners of boards worn. Weight: 1 Language: English
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 368pp. Half-cloth over decorated paper-covered boards. Gold lettering on spine. Wear to corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Spine sunned. Frontispiece. Illustrated with reproductions of full-page and in-text woodcuts by Keith Henderson. Binding in good, interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$243.82 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An adventure novel set in 19th century Uruguay, illustrated and with a scarce dust wrapper. First published in 1885, this novel was originally released as 'The Purple Land that England Lost', and tells the tale of a young Englishman who marries a teenage Argentinian girl without asking her father for her hand, and the couple are forced to flee to Uruguay. This edition contains a profuse number of vignette woodcut illustrations by Keith Henderson.In the publisher's original binding, with a scarce unclipped dust wrapper. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice Back. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey for many years. He spent eight winters in the Antarctic and is a descendent of Captain George Back. In addition, he served as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations. His library collection was built over decades and highlights his love of polar exploration. In a full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, some fading to the head of the spine. Dust wrapper has a large crack from the tail of the spine two inches up towards the rear cover and some loss to the paper at the head of the spine as well. There is a bookseller's sticker to the rear flap and the spine is sunned and rubbed. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown, gift inscription to front endpaper. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Henderson, Keith. First illustrated edition. Illustrated by Keith Henderson, with 52 woodblock illustrations (13 full page portrait plates on calendered paper, 39 vignettes in text). 368 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed from the Illustrator to His Wife. Hudson's outstanding picaresque tale of intrigue and travel in Uruguay, and a key text in the traditoonal of magical realist literature. Originally published in 1885, it was reissued in 1904 when Duckworth published Green Mansions. 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 Cloth spine, patterned paper boards, printed spine label. Very good in original rose pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly toned) Illustrated by Keith Henderson, with 52 woodblock illustrations (13 full page portrait plates on calendered paper, 39 vignettes in text). 368 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.