HERBERT READ. — The Green Child. A Romance.

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 256pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with black endpapers. The top edge dust soiled. A trace of very light spotting to several unprinted preliminary leaves, and a touch of very occasional marginal soiling. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown, and a contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of a blank preliminary leaf. A very good copy in good only dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat toned, rubbed, creased and stained, with a number of areas of internal reinforcement. The author's "fascinating but inscrutable" first and only novel, which he claimed in a letter to Carl Jung was a product of automatic writing., Very Good, Good