Purple Land that England Lost. Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America

by W. H Hudson

$3,000 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885. First edition of the author's first book, without the half-titles and the ads. Two twelvemo volumes 73/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 124 mm . iv, 1 -286; iv, 1 -265, 1, colophon pp.Publisher's original blue cloth. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Cloth slightly rubbed, otherwise about fine. Housed in a custom

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