Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$28.93 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 8vo. A tatty copy. Front inner hinge repaired and rear one cracked, Spine rolled, spine cloth partially detached with losses to top and tail. Cover cloth scuffed and fading. some discolouration to eps, some pages a little creased.
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp xx, 489p + 32 publisher's advertisements. b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, 36 further b/w illustrations, and 2 maps. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt knot pattern to front board, bright binding, slight general wear only. Contents clean and tight, neat inscription dated Christmas 1899, (verifying that it is a first edition) light scattered spotting. A very good first edition copy. Size: 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Price: US$43.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book , 489pp, 32pp publishers advertising, 2 maps and 36 illustrations. Blue cloth covers, no dust jacket. Gilt decorative title to front and spine. Small 1cm tear to front spine fold at top. Cornerslightly rubbed . Internally front hinge paper is stretched but firm. Foxing to half title and title pages, some foxing to foredge and scatterred foxing throughout. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 1899. Top edges dusty. Foxed throughout. Publishers blue gilt decorated cloth lightly rubbed and marked, else good copy. 489 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Haggard, H. Rider. Farmer's Year; His Commonplace Book for 1898. Longmans, Green, London, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [xviii], 489 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations by G. Leon Little. Cloth binding, embossed gilt lettering and cover design, light surface wear, scattered foxing, else good copy. (42285).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xviii, 489 pp, illustrated in black and white, some foxing throughout text, Rider Haggard's journal of a year farming, name in ink on title page. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition of this illustrated work on a year of farming from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-six plates. Collated complete. A diary of farming throughout the year providing a thorough explanation of tending to the land and animals across the year, with a chapter for each month. With insight into planting, harvesting and the breeding of farm animals. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Illustrated by George Leon Little, a British artist known for his rural landscapes. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting throughout. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper and title page dated 1st January 1900. Kenley Cottage embossed stamp to the front endpaper. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Description: xx, (490), 32pp. pub. cat.[lacking p1.] 2 maps and 35 [of 36] plates by G. Leon Little. Lacks Bush draining at Bedingham p79. Gennerally grubby foxed copy in original binding. READING COPY ONLY. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Haggard, H. Rider. A FARMER'S YEAR. , 1899.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898. With 2 Maps and 36 Illustrations by G. Leon Little. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 32 pp ads dated Sep 1898. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of 3000 copies. This was Haggard's second volume of non-fiction (his first was his first book, CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS, in 1882). The volume is a month-by-month chronicle of the "struggles of those who were engaged in agriculture during that trying time" (per his later autobiography). As many veteran Haggard collectors know, it is these non-fiction Haggard titles that are among the most elusive, since the number of copies issued was a small fraction of the size of his fiction printings. A bright, near-fine copy (small area of front cover rubbed). Scott 32; Whatmore NF2.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xx, 489 pp. plus pub. cat. With 2 maps and 36 illustrations by G. Leon Little. 8vo, publisher's blue gilt cloth. First edition. Old, darkened tape repair to the fore-edge margin of one leaf; slight gutter break starting opposite the half title; some scattered very slight foxing.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Farmer's Year by H. Rider Haggard (First Edition) G. Leon Little, Illustrated Sunned spine. Some faint pale mottling to covers. Moderate foxing throughout. Blue cloth, decorative gilt. Black endpapers. 38 plates: 2 maps and 36 illustrations.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this illustrated work on a year of farming from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-six plates. Collated complete. A diary of farming throughout the year providing a thorough explanation of tending to the land and animals across the year, with a chapter for each month. With insight into planting, harvesting and the breeding of farm animals. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Illustrated by George Leon Little, a British artist known for his rural landscapes. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Minor age toning to the endpapers. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Haggard, H. Rider. A FARMER'S YEAR. Longmans, Green & Company, 1899.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Description: A FARMER'S YEAR, Longmans, Green & Co., (London), 1899, lst ed., a bright vg+/near fine copy with unbroken inner hinges. Illustrated. 1/3,000 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. A FARMER'S YEAR. Longmans, Green & Company, 1899.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Description: A FARMER'S YEAR, Longmans, Green & Co., (London), 1899, lst ed., a bright vg+/near fine copy with unbroken inner hinges. Illustrated. 1/3,000 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard. A Farmer's Year. Longmans Green and Co, 1899.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Being his commonplace book for 1898, London New York and Bombay map and illustrations by G. Leon Little
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition; 3000 copies printed. Publisher's blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and cover, black end papers. Two maps and 36 illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece by G. Leon Little. Scott 32 : Whatmore NF2. London: Longmans, Green and Co. (1899), 489 pages. Fine unmarked book with modest wear, slightly bumped bottom corner, cracked hinges.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
HAGGARD, H. Rider.. The Farmer's Year.. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899., 1899.
Price: US$263.05 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. dark blue cloth dec. in gilt, xx, (490), 32pp. ads dated "9.98." Some occasional foxing, o/w a fine copy. Whatmore NF2
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$303.07 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (xx, 489, [1], 32 pages) : illustrations, plates. Subjects; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856-1925 Diaries. Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856-1925. Novelists, English 19th century Diaries. Farmers England Norfolk Diaries. Farm life England Norfolk. Agriculture England. Norfolk (England) Rural conditions. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (xx, 489, [1], 32 pages) : illustrations, plates. Subjects; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856-1925 Diaries. Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) 1856-1925. Novelists, English 19th century Diaries. Farmers England Norfolk Diaries. Farm life England Norfolk. Agriculture England. Norfolk (England) Rural conditions. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board.20 × 13.5cm, xx +189pp, + 36pp publisher's catalogue to rear. This copy belonged to Irish gardener William Robinson and bears his ownership signature to the half-title page, signed at Gravetye in 1899. William Robinson (1838–1935) was a gardener and journalist hose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement. He purchased the Elizbethan Gravetye Manor in Sussex in 1884 where he created a garden, putting many of his ideas into practice. His books included The Wild Garden and The English Flower Garden, the latter being the bestselling gardening book ever printed. A non-fiction title by the author of King Solomon's Mines and She. Originally issued as a serial for Longman's Magazine, A Farmer's Year is his diary for 1898, recounting the work on his wife's Norfolk estate, month by month, together with observations on rural life and the state of agriculture in general, which was suffering due to the population drift to the towns and competition from cheaper imported food. His descriptions of country life are beautifully written, but he does not ignore the hardship faced by many farmers and their workers. The book is illustrated with 36 monochrome plates by G Leon Little, and 2 maps. Condition: A good plus copy, and scarce to find with William Robinson's signature. There is light rubbing to the corners and spine ends of the blue cloth. The inner binding is sound but starting to weaken at the half-title (but remaining secure). There is light scattered foxing throughout with heavier tanning and foxing to the adverts to the rear, but the books remains in strong readable condition, and all plates are present.
Seller: Cox & Budge Books, IOBA, Hythe, United Kingdom
HAGGARD, H. Rider. A farmer's year. Longmans, Green, London, 1899.
Price: US$461.98 + shipping
Description: Large paper issue, no.59 of a limited edition of 100 copies. Illustrated by G.Leon Little. Owner's stamps in red; owner's name; free end papers slightly browned; board corners worn; spine browned & bumped; paperboards a little soiled. This is a heavy book (over 2kgs) and extra shipping may be required from outside the UK. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in grey paperboards
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$505.03 + shipping
Description: The Large Paper issue. No. 49 of only 100 copies. Bookplate on front pastedown and a smaller one opposite the 'Dedication' page. A little foxing. Light marking to covers and light wear to corners. Cream spine a bit browned with mark on bottom panel where label removed. Overall a rather good copy of this limited edition. It will weigh well over 2kgs when packed and extra shipping may be required
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$645.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scarce Haggard title. Collated complete. Large paper copy, limited edition no. 54/100. Inscribed by the artist Leon Little to Mrs Taylor. Green card boards with black lettering to spine. Boards are slightly grubby with some mild foxing. Rear board has some small losses to green covering where the card has torn. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to board edges. Spine is age darkened with bumping to ends. Page edges are rough cut. Top edge gilt. Some foxing to endpages. Previous owner's mark. Textblock is just starting to give. B/w frontispiece with tissue protection intact. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 491 pp. 36 plates. 2 maps. Inscribed by Leon Little to Mrs Taylor. It was given to Thomas Erich Winch, by Anne Taylor, who was a daughter of the lady in the dedication. The Taylors lived in Margery Hall which is just outside Reigate. Mr Taylor was a photographer whom Queen Victoria sometimes used. The artist, Leon Little, was a friend of the Taylor family and the pictures in the book are allegedly scenes on their estate of Margery Hall which he did these whilst staying there as a house guest. Rider Haggard was also allegedly a friend of/ known to the Taylors. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 2143g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £17.05 (Europe) and £34.70 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 025789:15(3a)) Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall 2143 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$790.49 + shipping
Description: Only 100 hundred copies of this edition have been printed of which this copy is number 65. Bound in paper covered boards, spine is white with black titling and five raised bands while boards are light blue. Spine creased along the four raised bands. The boards show minor wear and rubbing to the extremities. Top edge gilt with fore edge untrimmed. Four colour photographs have been pasted on the front endpapers and are accompanied by two letters. These appear to be of Haggard's house, Ditchingham, taken in 1976. Text accompanied by two maps and 36 captioned plates protected by tissue guards, some incidences of foxing. pp 491.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition - Large paper (4to). Limited to 100 copies; here is #12. Contemporary green cloth and black leather half boards with gilt piping, gilt lettered ribbed spine with red leather decorated inlays, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Two color title page, two maps and 36 tissue guarded illustrations including frontispiece by G. Leon Little. Scott 32a : Whatmore NF2 (6a). London: Longmans, Green and Co. (1899), 491 pages. Fine unmarked book with just the merest hint of tanning at page edges in a Nearly Fine contemporary binding that has a sun faded spine (appears brown rather than black) and modest shelf wear to tips and bottom edge; this bits of sun toning to end papers.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1585.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition - Large paper (4to). Limited to 100 copies; here is #68. Original green paper over white vellum quarter boards, ribbed spine titled in black, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Two color title page, two maps and 36 tissue guarded illustrations including frontispiece. Scott 32a : Whatmore NF2 (6a). London: Longmans, Green and Co. (1899), 491 pages. VG: toned spine. edgewear and handling, Christmas 1899 gift inscription on toning f.fe. A couple of loose or missing tissue guards.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. A Farmer's Year. Longmans, London, 1899.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HB Illustrated blue-grey paper boards with white paper spine, lettered in black on spine Large Paper Issue limited to 100 copies, this copy number 80. Some rubbing,especially at tips, still altogether a very nice copy of a Haggard rarity. Although not by any means intended to be autobiographical, Haggard stands much more clearly revealed by some of his non fiction, particularly "A Farmer's Year" and "A Gardener's Year." Scott 32A
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition; 3000 copies printed. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and cover, black end papers. Two maps and 36 illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece by G. Leon Little. Publisher's 32-page catalog dated 9/98 at rear. Scott 32 : Whatmore NF2. Presentation copy in custom slipcase. Inscribed by HRH on the half title page: "To Jeannie with heartfelt wishes for her complete recovery from H. Rider Haggard/18 Dec. 1899". Lilly [Jeannie] Jackson was HRH's lifelong love and sister of his close friend Frederick Jackson. She died 6 months after this inscription. London: Longmans, Green and Co. (1899), xviii + 489 pages + 32 page catalog. A superbly preserved fine copy now housed in a custom leather and linen ribbed slipcase with silk pull.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.