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The Green Child
by READ, Herbert; KELLY, Felix (1914-1999, illustrator)
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Gray Walls Press, 1945. Poor. 8vo.. FIRST THUS, SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half title: 'Herbert Read/ 21. iii. 52'. 8vo, pp. [138] + colour plates: sadly, defective � a previous owner has excised four plates, including the frontis. Grey cloth with gilt lettering interspersed with green circles to spine. Spine slightly cocked, wear to heel, bruising to top corners. POI to ffep, contents lightly shaken. Else, clean and bright. Though defective, scarce with Read's signature. New edition of Read's only novel, originally published in 1935 by Heinemann, and here fittingly paired with Felix Kelly's gently surreal illustrations. Written when he lived in Hampstead amidst the 'nest of gentle artists' (including Henry Moore) and in the same year as his extended 'Appreciation' of the sculptor appeared, the novel testifies to the critic's broad set of theoretical influences, particularly the psychoanalytic mysticism of Carl Jung. As well as designing dust jackets for authors such as Naomi Jacob and collections like Faber's Best Tales of Terror (1962), the New Zealand-born artist was often commissioned to produce paintings for grand houses in the UK and US, with the most well-know being the murals in the Garden Hall at Castle Howard, North Yorkshire. Read would return the favour and provided an introduction to a slim volume of Kelly's paintings published by Falcon Press in 1946.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1105
- Title
- The Green Child
- Author
- READ, Herbert; KELLY, Felix (1914-1999, illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gray Walls Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Art|Modern Firsts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed & Association Copies;
- Size
- 8vo.
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Spine
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
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