153 Letters from W.H. Hudson. Edited with an Intro
NONESUCH PRESS.; HUDSON (W.H.)
Photogravure vignette portrait of Hudson on the title-page. One of 1000 numbered copies. 8vo., a fairly 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
W.H. Hudson was a naturalist and novelist born in Argentina of American parents. He came to England in his late twenties. He came to know Edward Garnett later in his life and these letters are from 1902-1922 when Hudson died. Garnett, a true friend and admirer of Hudson's, writes of 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."
Dust jacket worn at extremities, edges a little bumped and dusty, otherwise good.
Dreyfus, A History of the Nonesuch Press, no.10
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