The Green Child. A Romance

by Herbert Read

$375 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 256 pp. 8vo. Green cloth. Slightly rubbed. Very good minus, lacking the printed dust jacket. Uncommon. Bleiler, Checklist 1978 , p. 164. Item #216730 “a remarkable double Utopia … a dramatic critique of and metaphor for the utopian impulse as a whole” SFE .The Green Child was inspired by the mediaeval legend of the green children of Woolpit, two green-skinned

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