153 Letters from W.H. Hudson. Edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Edward Garnett.
NONESUCH PRESS.; HUDSON (W.H.)
Photogravure vignette portrait of Hudson on the title-page. One of 1000 numbered copies. 8vo., a very good copy in original brown buckram, printed paper label on the spine and a spare tipped in at the end, printed dust jacket, uncut and unopened. Published at Thirty Gerrard Street, Soho W, by The Nonesuch Press. 1923
Garnett writes of Hudson: "He had nothing of the author's vanity, for his interests all surged outward away from himself into the fields of life. He seemed unconscious of his own books so busily were his thoughts and sensations occupied with the flowing ocean of nature round him. His melancholy, his sympathy, his capriciousness, his underlying passionateness, his freedom of bearing and unselfconsciousness, all blended to create an atmosphere warm yet invigorating like a liberating west wind. One felt great vistas opening behind his memories, and his tragic wistfulness was like the melancholy of sunset moods, casting premonitory shadows".
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