THE GREEN CHILD. This item is unavailable.THE GREEN CHILD

First edition thus. Attractive bookplate to the front endpaper, neat date to the upper front endpaper, minor bump to the upper spine area, and modest shelf wear, else a near fine copy in green cloth with gilt spine lettering; in a near fine, photo-illustrated dust jacket with a mildly tanned spine. Front flap price of $4.50. "First published in 1935, The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the south American pampas and the to a mysteries and eternal underground land of caves."--publisher's blurb.