H. Rider Haggard. Allan and the Ice-Gods: A Tale of Beginnings. Hutchinson & Co., London, 1927.

Price: US$38.48 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A first edition copy of this exciting adventure novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Featuring Allan Quartermain, the story details his past life regression to a Stone Age ancestor where various adventures occur. 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. This printing does not include publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and the odd pencil mark. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front pastedown. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

H. Rider Haggard. Allan and the Ice Gods: A Tale of Beginnings. Hutchinson & Co., London, 1927.

Price: US$89.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition in publisher's red cloth stamped in black on spine and cover. Sixteen page catalog dated Spring 1927 at rear. Scott 83; Whatmore F56. London: Hutchinson & Co., (n.d. 1927), 287 pages. A VG copy. Cloth has some soil spots, and wrinkling. A fairly tight copy with off-white pages.

Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.

H. Rider Haggard. Allan and the Ice Gods. Hutchinson & Co., London, 1927.

Price: US$96.21 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A scarce first UK edition copy of Haggard's final novel to feature his popular recurring character Allan Quatermain. A scarce first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original red cloth binding, with black lettering to the front board and spine, and white end papers.Allan and the Ice-Gods is H. Rider Haggard's fifteenth and final Allan Quatermain novel to be published, although the events of the novel Allan Quatermain occur after it. Based on an idea given to Haggard by Rudyard Kipling, the story details a variety of adventures centering on Quatermain's past life regression to a Stone Age ancestor. Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English author who specialised in adventure fiction set in exotic locations, primarily Africa. He was a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. With the printer's imprint 'Printed by the Anchor Press, Ltd., Tiptree, Essex, England' to page 287 and a sixteen-page publisher's catalogue for Spring 1927 to the rear.All issue points correspond with Scott, 83. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with fading to the spine. Spine is slightly cocked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with some spotting to the first and last few pages, and to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

HAGGARD, H. RIDER. Allan and the Ice Gods. London Hutchinson 1927, 1927.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First British Edition. Laid in is a small paper note (2 3/4Ó x 1 3/8Ó) signed and inscribed by the author: ÒVery truly yours, H. Rider Haggard.Ó Ownership inscription dated 1927. Very good copy with a little foxing to the outside edges and a few preliminary pages, some minor edge wear and some slight fading and rubbing to the spine in a very good lightly spotted dust jacket with some shallow chips and tiny tears. Scarce in the striking color pictorial dust jacket.

Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.