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Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early American edition in the Harper & Brother series half-bound with marbled paper over red faux calf with gilt lettered and ruled spine and cream colored end pages. "Copiously Illustrated" with letter from Haggard to the publisher, facsimile signed frontispiece portrait and 19 full page illustrations and numerous partial page illustrations. Ten pages of ads at rear. New York: Harper & Brothers (1887), 310 pages. This good copy has some fraying at spine ends, some edge dings, boards showing through a few spots, sunned spine. Penciled writing on title page.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. Allan Quatermain. Harper & Brothers, 1887.
Price: US$62.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In half red cloth and marbled boards. Light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Name in ink.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. Allan Quatermain. Harper and Brothers, 1887.
Price: US$69.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half red cloth, marbled boards. Tips of corners show light wear, light to modest edgewear, modest sunfade to spine, period name on endpaper. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and attractive, with a tight binding and clean pages.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early American edition in the Harper & Brother series half-bound with marbled paper over red faux calf with gilt lettered and ruled spine and cream colored end pages. "Copiously Illustrated" with letter from Haggard to the publisher, facsimile signed frontispiece portrait and 19 full page illustrations [all present] and numerous partial page illustrations. Ten pages of ads at rear. New York: Harper & Brothers (1887), 310 pages. This good copy has a toning spine, edge wear, modestly frayed spine ends. Pencils to front paste down and 2nd free end page.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's binding, half red cloth [including tips] over marble paper covered boards. 310pp. plus 10 pages of publisher's ads appended. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including portrait frontis-piece, Holograph extract from a letter from Mr. H. Rider Haggard to Messrs. Harper & Brothers printed on the front endpage. First authorized American edition. No previous ownership marks. Covers show light age wear but a generally clean and square. Hinges strong, all pages firmly attached. Text very clean. Scans sent on request. A near very good copy of one of Haggard's best known and most popular novels.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. Allan Quatermain. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1887.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: HB Illustrated Half-cloth, marbled boards. Salmon endpapers Ownership stamp. 10 pp publisher's ads. Early American (probable first hardback) edition
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-226 [227-240: ads], original pictorial white wrappers printed in gray green, orange and black. Early U.S. edition. Issued as "Munro's Library," Double Number, volume 50, number 788, May 31, 1887. One of several pirated American editions which appear to have been published in July 1887. Rand, McNally & Co.'s "Globe Library," No. 26 with front wrapper dated 1 February 1887 was listed in Publishers' Weekly 9 July 1887, as was Harper's authorized American edition, published as "Harper's Handy Series" No. 139 with front wrapper dated 1 July 1887. Publication date for both Longmans, Green's UK edition and Harper's authorized American edition was 1 July 1887. Several other unauthorized American editions, including Norman L. Munro "Munro's Library" edition dated 31 May 1887 and George Munro's "Seaside Library" edition dated 29 June 1887 were listed in PW a week later, 16 July 1887. Scott, p. 20. Spine ends chipped and several other small chips from spine panel, chip from lower fore-edge corner of front cover and first and second leaves, a few leaves dog-eared, mild general dust soiling to wrappers, text block printed on wood pulp paper and therefore somewhat darkened but, in general, the pages are not brittle, as is often the case with these notoriously fragile subscription library books. While the Harper edition is most likely the first American edition, this Norman L. Munro edition is far less common and certainly is a very early American edition, if not the true first. (#158672)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. ALLAN QUATERMAIN. Harpers, 1887.
Price: US$174.00 + shipping
Description: ALLAN QUATERMAIN, Harpers, 1887, first American edition, rear wrap missing (supplied in facsimile ), front wrap chipped along extremities, else a nice copy of this very scarce book issued in wraps from the Handy Series.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Authorized American edition. Rare. True first with five leaves of ads at rear, listing to this book on inside front cover. Scott 7B. Harper's Handy Series No. 139. Illustrated paperback with 310 pages, dated July 1, 1887, 25 cent cover price. "Lavishly illustrated" with facsimile signature cover, and facsimile signature letter back cover, frontispiece portrait and all 20 of the C.H.M. Kerr illustrations from the Longman's UK 1st edition. New York: Harper & Brothers (1887), 310 pages + ads. Good: Facsimile replacement back cover. Shallow chipping along edges, loss and small cuts to spine panel, other minor imperfections. Unmarked interior with cream colored pages.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 310+ pages, 12mo. Originally published in wrappers, this edition rebound in 3/4 cloth (spine and cover corners) with marble-patterened boards, gilt lettering along spine. Illustrated with b&w prints, including portrait frontispiece inscribed by Allan Quartermain in facsimile. Ten pages of publisher's advertisements at rear of volume. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and cover boards, light spine fade, previous seller's small bookstamp on front endpaper, torn bottom corners on last three page leafs. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
HAGGARD, H. Rider. Allan Quatermain. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1887.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Originally published in wrappers, this copy rebound in contemporary half-morocco and marbled papercovered boards. Some wear to the spine ends and corners, a very good copy, internally fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: 310pp. Harper's Handy Series No. 139, July 1, 1887. First authorized US edition. This copy as described in Scott but without advertisements at the end. The Harper's Handy Series titles listed on the inside front cover go from no. 107 to 142; the titles listed on the inside back cover end with Allan Quatermain. With twenty illustrations by C. H. M. Kerr. Mild slant to the spine, light chipping to the edges and to the spine, faint stain affecting lower corner and appearing more pronouncedly on the back cover, crease to back cover. A good+ copy. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder, 1981, 1-87. Scott 7B.; 16mo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.