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Treece, Henry.
The Green Man.
Publisher: The Bodley Head, London;
Date of Publication: 1966
Stock Code: 15046
First edition. Octavo, pp., 254. Publisher’s olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring the Cerne Abbas Giant. A near fine copy in a like dust-jacket. A reworking of Amleth's Vengeance by the 12th century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, which also inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set in 6th century Jutland (Denmark), Duke Arthur's Britain and Caledonia (Scotland), this Europe is dark and sinister after the fall of the Roman Empire, with fantasy elements, murder, betrayal, rape and incest. British poet and writer Henry Treece (1911-1966) was noted for his children's historical novels and reinterpretations of ancient myths and legends. He taught at the Tynemouth School in the 1930s, before serving in the RAF in WWII. £50.00