Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press. Illustrated by John de Martelly. A Very Good Hardcover.

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 are tight and square, light handling wear. Spine sun-darkened, as in paste-on label. Lacking slipcase.

Very Good / No Dust Jacket As Issued. Item #013829

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance traveler to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions first published in 1904.

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.

Price: $14.85