Author: HUDSON, W. H.
Title: The Purple Land (Modern Library #24. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945]. Hardcover. W. H. Hudson's novel, set in the Uruguay of the 19th Century, was originally titled "The Purple Land that England Lost", and later was published as "The Purple Land, Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself." Introduction by William McFee. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on dark green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso lists titles in ML catalog but total number is missing. Likely published c.1945 (though no date appears in book). ML #24.2. --- With prior owner's rubberstampings to endpapers, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy. Fair-only, rather brittle dust jacket with chips along top & bottom edges, severe sunning to spine and retailer's sticker, else intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvi, 389, (8, ads) pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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