Hudson, W.H.. The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself. Duckworth, London, 1929.

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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

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