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Price: US$245.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Rebound ex library book with usual stamps and stickers, in good condition, some slight shelfwear and dust marks to boards. no jacket. Tan to text block edges, decoratively speckled red. Content clear. A nice copy. Please feel free to contact us for further images or information.
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$341.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: this copy has been carefully rebacked maintaining the integrity of original green cloth spine & sides, corners a little rubbed, light foxing throughout, small inscription to title page. A very good 1st edition copy of Rider Haggard's 1st book of which only 750 copies were printed. ; 215 x 145mm; xiii, 294 pages
Seller: M. & A. Simper Bookbinders & Booksellers, WARRNAMBOOL, VIC, Australia
Price: US$368.68 + shipping
Description: Light cover wear but but heavier, with slight loss, at head and foot of spine. Inner hinges have been neatly repaired at some time. Owner's name at head of title page. Tight binding.
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cetywayo and His White Neighbours by H. Rider Haggard Rebound. Minor foxing to the original prelims. A few toned smudges to margins. Rebound in brown and black cloth. Black leather spine label lettered gold. New marbled endpapers. The Author's first published book. Only 750 copies printed. Privately printed.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard. Cetywayo and His White Neighbours. Trubner and Co., 1882.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: very good copy of the first edition, published in 1882 with help from Haggard and his father, only 150 of a initial printing of 750 sold although became much more popular after Haggard success and was published in a number of editions. light wear to head and heel of spine Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
H. Rider Haggard.. CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS.. Trubner & Co., 1882.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo [ 6 X 8 ½ inches ], green cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on front board, brown end papers, xx, 294 pages including the appendix. FINE COPY OF THE FIRsT EDITION.
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1628.50 + shipping
Description: CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS Trubner & Co., 1882, first edition, cloth rubbed at head and heel of spine panel and corners, partial hairline crack to inner front hinge, small private library stamp of George Hood, M.D. on recto of first blank, 18mm by 20mm V-chip from top edge of leaf preceding title leaf, else a very good, tight, bright copy of this, the authors scarce first book, published in an edition of 750 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1629.96 + shipping
Description: Spine sunned and a little worn and marked, sides just a little marked and corners slightly rubbed, occasional spotting, but a nice copy of the authors scarce first book Scott 1; McKay 1; Sadleir 1082 Only 750 copies were printed. Original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in gilt and black
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. Cetywayo and His White Neighbors. Trubner & Co., London, 1882.
Price: US$1725.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition and author's first book. Print run of 750 copies. Publisher's green cloth with spine and front cover triple ruled at top and bottom in black, spine with gilt lettering, front cover with gilt design, back cover triple blind ruled at top and bottom; brown end papers. Scott 1, Whatmore NF1. London: Trubner & Co. (1882), 294 pages. Nearly Fine copy with soft spine ends, a couple of bumped corners. Professionally reinforced joints.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard. Cetywayo and His White Neighbors. Trubner & Co., London, 1882.
Price: US$2275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition and author's first book. Print run of 750 copies. Publisher's green cloth with spine and front cover triple ruled at top and bottom in black, spine with gilt lettering, front cover with gilt design, back cover triple blind ruled at top and bottom; brown end papers. Scott 1, Whatmore NF1. With an inserted inscription signed by Haggard pasted to a card: "I hope to visit Africa after the war to study the whole political position/Very sincerely yours/ H Rider Haggard" dated 28th September 1914 on verso. London: Trubner & Co. (1882), 294 pages. VG copy with edge wear, soft spine ends, curled tips, spine ends and tips starting to fray, cracked hinges. Neatly affixed bookplate and remains of small bookstore sticker on front paste down.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$16170.20 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 750 COPIES], a few very faint spots to prelims and to final page of text, pp. xix, 294, 8vo, original blue-green cloth, the triple-rules to backstrip and upper board stamped in black (and on lower board blind-stamped, backstrip lettered in gilt, device to upper board stamped in gilt, a touch of rubbing at extremities, very good. Inscribed by the author to his father on the verso of the flyleaf: 'William M.R. Haggard Esqre, Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, from the author, H. Rider Haggard, Ditchingham House, Norfolk, 7 July 1882'. An important presentation copy of the author's first book, a critique of the colonial situation in South Africa, and here in superb unrestored condition. It was his father who had sent his 'impecunious son' (ODNB) off to the region, where his experiences formed the background of this work, to establish himself rather than pursue the distraction of an impetuous love-interest; though initially successful there, the failure of his romance, confirmed when his love married another, caused him to fall 'into a rash and reckless life, [he] resigned his civil service post, and undertook, with a friend, to raise ostriches' - before returning, in 1879, 'unannounced to his father' (ODNB) at Bradenham Hall, where he had the fortune to encounter a schoolfriend of his sister, with whom he fell in love and to whom he was quickly married. Louisa Margitson was the heir to Ditchingham House, a nearby estate in Norfolk, whither the couple - now with a young son - repaired after the commencement of the Anglo-Transvaal War in 1881, following a further spell of ostrich-farming in South Africa. With new responsibilities, Haggard resolved to read for the bar, and also began his writing career with this work - but it was not an immediate success. Trübner & Co. agreed to publish his manuscript in an edition of 750 copies, in exchange for a cheque of £50 - the expense largely borne by his patient father, to whom he here presents the fruit of his labours. The book was, Haggard later reflected 'at this time a total failure' - almost two years later only 154 copies had sold, a performance that the publisher regarded as 'most unsatisfactory'; it was only after his fiction began to meet an enthusiastic readership, with the success of 'King Solomon's Mines' in 1885, that the edition sold through, and further editions appeared. (Whatmore NF1; Scott 1)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom