New York: Horizon Press, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Edward Dahlberg, often called the 'Job of American Letters,' was famous for his uncompromising, archaic prose style and his refusal to bow to the literary fashions of his time. In Herbert Read, the distinguished British.....
New York: New Directions, c1963. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The Green Child is Herbert Read’s only novel, significant because Read is better known as an English poet, art critic and anarchist intellectual. According to bibliographic history: first published in London by Heinemann in 1935. A New Directions edition in the.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Herbert Read (1893–1968) was among the leading British art critics and philosophers of aesthetics, championing modern art’s psychological and formal dimensions. His writings influenced mid-century modernism, especially through his association with Henry Moore and Barbara.....
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New York: New Directions, 1948. First American Edition. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Herbert Read was a titan of 20th-century criticism, and The Green Child was his attempt to synthesize his complex theories on art and politics into narrative form. While the British edition established its literary merit, this 1948 New Directions edition.....