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She and Allan
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1921. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition, which preceded the English version. Haggard brought together two of his most popular characters, Ayesha and Allan, in as late novel. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition in a Later State. Red cloth binding, ruled, titled, and decorated in black of the front cover; titling in black on the spine. Clean text; xviii, 392 pages; with a three-page publisher's catalong of Haggard's works in the rear. No errata slip indicates later printing.Tiny bit of rubto the margins; some very faint spotting on the covers; soiling to page ends. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archioval plastic protector.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines. Its significance was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the sixth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in September, 1975.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005240
- Title
- She and Allan
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Later State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from a later run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part...
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