Ediciones Dos Amigos. Hudson, Guillermo Enrique. Alla Lejos Y Hace Tiempo. (Far Away and Long Ago. A history of my early life) Two Volumes. Buenos Aires, Argentina Ediciones Dos Amigos 2004
One of 45 copies, all on cream Velin d'Arches paper, signed in pencil by the artist, Alicia Scavino on page 119 of Vol. I. Illustrated with 11 full and half-page etchings and aquatints by Alicia Scavino. Page size: 10-3/8 x 13-3/4 inches; Vol. I, 146pp; Vol. II, 146pp. Bound: loose as issued in original pale green paper wrappers, housed in cork over boards clamshell box with title in green on spine, fine. Translated from English by Fernando Pozzo and Celia Rodriquez de Pozzo into Spanish, this beautiful edition contains images of the natural world, flowers, birds, animals, sometimes with the boy narrator. It is set in 12point Ronaldson and printed letterpress in three colors (green for chapter numbers in Vol. I, red for chapter numbers in Vol. II, green for chapter initial letters, text in black) by Ruben R. Lapolla under the direction of Samuel Cesar Palui and Ernesto Lowenstein. William Henry Hudson (1841-1922), author, ornithologist and naturalist, was born in Argentina to U.S. parents. At age 28 he moved to England where his ornithological titles earned him renown. This autobiographical reminiscence of his youth in Argentina rivals his novel, GREEN MANSIONS, as his best known work. His scholarly efforts were not eclipsed by his literary career. He was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and is considered a leading figure in the back-to-nature movement of the 1920's and 1930's. He is considered to belong to the national literature of the country of his birth, Argentina, and this extraordinary edition of his time there is a worthy homage.
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