There's A Secret Hid Away By Lawrence G. Green
There's A Secret Hid Away (Collectible True First Edition in New Protective Sleeve)
A Beautifully Maintained Account Tracking Hidden Inconsistencies, Forgotten Fortunes, and Wilderness Chronicles Across Southern and Tropical Africa
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: There's A Secret Hid Away: Memories of Unusual Experiences and Mysteries in Southern Africa and a Few Distant Islands
- Author: Lawrence G. Green
- Publisher: Howard Timmins Ltd, Cape Town
- Publication Date: 1956
- ISBN: Not Applicable (Pre-ISBN Era / Issued Without ISBN)
- Edition Details: True First Edition, First Printing. The original hardcover print cycle produced by Citadel Press for Howard Timmins.
- Binding: Original publisher's cloth-bound hardcover.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 244 pages detailed with photographic plate inserts and custom illustrated endpaper maps.
- Language: English.
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used – Good (G)
- Exterior / Boards: The original cloth boards are robust and structurally solid, showing minor, completely authentic bumping along the corner tips from shelf life. The spine remains completely undamaged, solid, and strongly bound.
- Interior: Good standing. The internal pages are remarkably clean and fully intact, free of modern user highlighting or dealer pencil markings. Exhibits a standard, entirely authentic vintage tanning of the pages along the margins, characteristic of the 1950s paper stock used during this publication cycle.
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The Dust Jacket: Used – Good (G)
- Report: The original pictorial dust jacket shows normal, authentic wear and tear along the panels and outer edge margins from storage. It has been beautifully looked after, stabilized, and protected behind a brand-new clear cellophane cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1956, There's A Secret Hid Away stands out as a unique volume in Lawrence Green's bibliography, being slightly different from anything he had written previously. The book is South African to the core, charting a series of fascinating adventures that take readers across Rhodesia, South-West Africa (Namibia), tropical Africa, and remote ocean islands. Blending personal memoir with investigative travel writing, Green searches for hidden anomalies, forgotten colonial fortunes, and eccentric wilderness characters. This true first printing serves as an invaluable piece of mid-century heritage preservation that will fascinate every admirer of Lawrence Green's work and delight many new readers.
Author Profile: Lawrence G. Green
Lawrence George Green (1900–1972) was one of South Africa’s most prolific and widely read authors, journalists, and travel biographers. Over his long career, he penned dozens of bestselling historical retrospectives, capturing the folklore, hidden corners, maritime mysteries, and eccentric characters of the African continent with an exceptionally accessible and deeply immersive prose style.
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