Green Mansions
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1940. Illustrations by John de Martelly. A Very Good Hardcover with a Fair Slipcase.
Light green decorated cloth-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, light green paper-covered slipcase; full page lithographs and each page decorated page number. ---Bindings tight and square, light handling wear. Spine sun-darkened, as in paste-on label. Bookplate on front endpage. Slip-case has wear with some older clear tape repair. 8vo, pp. [2], 269, [2]. No date: circa 1940.
Very Good / No Dust Jacket As Issued; Slipcase with modest handling wear. Item #004262
William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions first published in 1904.
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance of a traveler to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.
In 1959, the book was adapted into a movie, also entitled Green Mansions, starring Audrey Hepburn as Rima, with Anthony Perkins as Abel. The film, which was directed by Hepburn's husband, Mel Ferrer
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