Appreciation e oe somerville (1 resultados)
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Editorial: Methuen 1938
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Second Printing. Good first edition, second printing hardcover in green cloth covered boards showing wear at tips and spine ends. No names, tears or soil in the 240pp text, just some light foxing on endpapers with rep removed. Original, illustrated, un-clipp…ed dj shows a darkened spine w/a repaired chip at head and light handling soil on panels. Jacket now in new mylar and displays well. A tumble-down southern American plantation is falling to ruin, but there are still horses in the stables and hounds in the kennels. All around is the teeming life of the forest swamp. The summer wanes, fox-cubs grow up, and then early one morning the clear air resounds with the baying of hounds and the sweet-toned noise of the horn. The changing scenes are memorable - the beauty of the pack, whose very names are music: the glorious danger of the gallop over rough country; the Negros and their illegal cock-fighting; Proctor the surley 'Ketch-dog" and its domain. As Dr. Somerville says in her Appreciation,: 'There is something fresh and original here, although the theme is one with which all of use are familiar.
