At Home on the Earth A New Selection of the Later Writings of Richard Jeffries by Hooker, Jeremy - 1990

Totnes, Devon.: Green Books., 2001. 173pp, illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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-Green Books (2001)-. First edition Green Books paperback first impression 2001. Paperback. Fine. Richard Jefferies (1848-87) has long been recognised as an interpreter of English country life and a natural observer with few if any equals. He was an idealist, who believed that human beings could free themselves from outworn ideas and achieve a greatly enlarged spiritual and physical capacity. A ?poet-naturalist? with an ecological vision, who understood the place of human beings in relation to the ?household? of life on earth, he was both mystic and realist, and his writings show the beauty of ?wild England? but also the harsh conditions of labouring life in the victorian countryside. In his art of seeing, Jefferies was a precursor of modernist techniques, and an influence on modern nature writings and poetry. The variety of his gifts as a writer and thinker is reflected in the diversity of his admirers, who include Edward Thomas and W. H. Hudson, Q. D. Leavis and Henry Miller. Jeremy Hooker?s new… Read More

UK,8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,p/back original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but
p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE+.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase,so - no owner inscrptn,unread - apart from my own collation - no reading creases to spine/backstrip,nor any dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners either.Top+fore-edges
bright and clean - though a tiny spot to some rear pages' edges,towards top of fore -edges; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine.UK,8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,8-173pp [paginated] includes an intro,a note on the selection,autobiographical fragments,20 prose extracts of Richard Jeffries writings,5 full-page (includes
frntis) and 7 part-page b/w woodcut-style illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker throughout the text and the book,a Jeffries… Read More

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