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HUDSON (William Henry, an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist, 1841-1922); CUNNINHAME GRAHAM (Robert Bontine, a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer, 1852-1936).

W. H. Hudson's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

([London]): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1941. First edition thus. 128pp. Limited edition, no. 86 of 250 copies printed (as per colophon at rear, which gives the press's address at that time as Rolls Passage, London. E.C.4).  Illustrated with tinted frontispiece portrait (after a caricature of the author), and one other full-page tinted plate (after a drawing of Cunninghame Graham). Red quarter crushed morocco binding over yellow papered boards ('Bound by S. & S. London'), with gilt lettering to spine. Fore- and bottom edges of text block untrimmed as published. Size: small 8vo (19.3cm x 13.2cm).

Near Fine condition. Slightest of darkening to leather at head and foot of spine. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.

A scarce example of this absorbing collection of letters from Anglo-Argentine naturalist William Hudson to adventurer Robert Cunninghame Graham, which was one of the war-time endeavours of the Golden Cockerel Press.