BLACK HEART AND WHITE HEART AND OTHER STORIES.
by HAGGARD, H. Rider (Sir Henry Rider), 1856-1925 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. First edition. The title story, set in the period of King Cetywayo, and two other longish tales, "Elissa" (also known as "The Doom of Zimbabwe") and "The Wizard". "Black Heart and White Heart ... is the best story that Mr. H. Rider Haggard has ever written; better, indeed, than anything we had hitherto thought him capable of writing" (The Graphic, 30th June 1900). Crown 8vo (19cm). xii,[2],414pp. Frontispiece and thirty-three full-page illustrations (the latter not included in pagination) by Charles Kerr (1858-1907) and Frederick Henry Townsend (1868-1920). Original dark blue cloth over bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; some minor wear to extremities, a few faint marks, some spotting to text and plates, but a very good and still bright copy. Scott 34. Whatmore F23.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38520
- Title
- BLACK HEART AND WHITE HEART AND OTHER STORIES.
- Author
- HAGGARD, H. Rider (Sir Henry Rider), 1856-1925 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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