first edition 256 pp. 8vo
1935 · London
by Read, Herbert
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. First edition. 256 pp. 8vo. Grass green cloth titled in gilt. Fine copy in fine, fresh dust-jacket. First edition. 256 pp. 8vo. Superb Copy in Dust Jacket. "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 children who came to a Yorkshire village and claimed to be from an underground world.
Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) was best known as an art critic and advocate of modern architecture. He was knighted in 1953. The Green Child was his only novel. A superior copy in dust-jacket. Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 164 (Inventory #: 308585)
The Green Child was inspired by the mediaeval legend of the green children of Woolpit, two green-skinned children who came to a Yorkshire village and claimed to be from an underground world.
Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) was best known as an art critic and advocate of modern architecture. He was knighted in 1953. The Green Child was his only novel. A superior copy in dust-jacket. Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 164 (Inventory #: 308585)