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The Green Child: Available Copies

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: SecondSale (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $7.49
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    TOTAL Cost: $7.49

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (1935)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $7.53
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    TOTAL Cost: $7.53

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (1935)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $7.53
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    TOTAL Cost: $7.53

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $3.99
    Shipping: $3.75
    TOTAL Cost: $7.74

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The Green Child : A Novel
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: Norton & Company Limited, W. W. (1935)


    Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $8.45
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    TOTAL Cost: $8.45

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: Solr Books (Skokie, IL, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $5.15
    Shipping: $3.99
    TOTAL Cost: $9.14

Annotated/underlined text.

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corp. (1935)


    Seller: Top Notch Books (Tolar, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $6.00
    Shipping: $4.75
    TOTAL Cost: $10.75

Wraps rubbed on edges and hinges, lightly chipped at tip. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Prior owner name on front reverse. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: 2nd Life Books (Burlington, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $7.48
    Shipping: $4.00
    TOTAL Cost: $11.48

Used book in good condition. May have some wear to binding, spine, cover, and pages. Some light highlighting markings writing may be present. May have some stickers and or sticker residue present. May be Ex-lib. copy. May NOT include discs, or access code or other supplemental material. We ship Monday-Saturday and respond to inquiries within 24 hours.

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $12.30
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $12.30

SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780860721222
    Publisher: R. Clark,1989. (1989)


    Seller: Shadetree Rare Books (Chatham, VA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: As New
    Book Price: $6.50
    Shipping: $5.95
    TOTAL Cost: $12.45

AS NEW SOFTCOVER

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore (Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $7.04
    Shipping: $6.00
    TOTAL Cost: $13.04

Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read, Eliot Weinberger (Introduction)

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: Ergodebooks (Houston, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $13.88
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    TOTAL Cost: $13.88

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The Green Child by Read, Herbert [Paperback ]
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: booksXpress (Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $14.50
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    TOTAL Cost: $14.50

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The Green Child Format: Paperback
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: WW Norton Publishers (2013)


    Seller: INDOO (Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $10.75
    Shipping: $3.99
    TOTAL Cost: $14.74

Brand New

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $15.97
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $15.97

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THE GREEN CHILD
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New Directions Publsihing, New York (1977)


    Seller: Grandmahawk's Eyrie (Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $16.00
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $16.00

no date, looks 1970s, 6th printing, PB, pictorial card covers, 194pp. General rubbing, creasing to edges of covers, inside has tanning to page edges, else square & tight. The anirchist autyhor's only completed novel, much admired by T. S. Eliot. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert, introduction by Kenneth Rexroth

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New Directions nd, NY ()


    Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books (Sebago, ME, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $12.00
    Shipping: $5.50
    TOTAL Cost: $17.50

"The sheer perfection of the writing is very rare in English since the loosening of standards in Nineteenth Century fiction." .reality is again entrance and translucent with the light of a natural glory behind it.what is more remarkable.one gradually comes to realize that it is about this state of being as such that Read is writing. Read's only novel, a utopian one, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South Aerican pampas and then to a mysterious and eternal underground land of caves.

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read; Kenneth Rexroth [Introduction]

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: Earthlight Books (Walla Walla, WA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $14.95
    Shipping: $4.50
    TOTAL Cost: $19.45

Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent bookstores. Trade paperback. Good. Minor shelf wear to covers/pages. Clean, tight binding.

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The Green Child (Paperback)
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York (2013)


    Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $19.49
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $19.49

Paperback. The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read - the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to Plato's cave. Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb's blood from a cup. Olivero rescues the child, and she leads him into unknown realms. A visionary masterpiece filled with green children, quicksand portals, imaginary countries, revolutionary dictators, and subterranean worlds Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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The Green Child (Capuchin Classics)
    by Herbert Read; Foreword-Graham Greene

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780956294746
    Publisher: Capuchin Classics (2010)


    Seller: Ergodebooks (Houston, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $19.85
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    TOTAL Cost: $19.85

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: Wonder Book (Frederick, MD, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $19.97
    Shipping: Free!
    TOTAL Cost: $19.97

Good condition. (fiction, english literature, 20th century ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: A New Directions Book, New York ()


    Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954) (Stouffville, ON, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $10.00
    Shipping: $10.00
    TOTAL Cost: $20.00

Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. 194pp. Content clean, bright and sound with paper lightly tanned.

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811201728
    Publisher: New Directions (1935)


    Seller: Books Unplugged (Amherst, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $21.01
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    TOTAL Cost: $21.01

Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: Hafa Adai Books (Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $21.09
    Shipping: $3.95
    TOTAL Cost: $25.04

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New Directions No pub date, New York ()


    Seller: Ann Becker (Houston, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $19.00
    Shipping: $9.00
    TOTAL Cost: $28.00

With an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert. Introduction By Kenneth Rexroth

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: New Directions, New York ()


    Seller: Purpora Books (Comox, BC, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $10.00
    Shipping: $21.00
    TOTAL Cost: $31.00

Covers are tanned on spine and rear cover. Undated publication, NDP208, though slip of Canadian distributor, which is laid-in, dates to 1969. Only novel of Herbert Read originally published in 1935.

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $31.32
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    TOTAL Cost: $31.32

Book is in NEW condition.

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks (Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $27.34
    Shipping: $4.00
    TOTAL Cost: $31.34

New. Fast Shipping and good customer service

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The Green Child
    by Herbert Read

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Grey Walls Press (1945)


    Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $25.74
    Shipping: $6.08
    TOTAL Cost: $31.82

1945. New edition. 137 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour illustration plates by Felix Kelly. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed.

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The Green Child
    by Read, Herbert; Weinberger, Eliot

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9780811221825
    Publisher: New Directions (2013)


    Seller: Russell Books (Victoria, BC, Canada)
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    Book Price: $23.95
    Shipping: $9.99
    TOTAL Cost: $33.94

Special order item direct from the distributor

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