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H. Rider Haggard. Maiwa's Revenge or The War of the Little Hand. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891.

Price: US$14.95 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1891. No Edition Remarks. 115 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Pen marking to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

H. Rider Haggard. Maiwas Revenge. Longmans, Green and Co, 1891.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Small 8vo brown cloth, blind stamped decoration to front board and spine. First Edition First Illustrated edition. Minor foxing internally. With 8 illustrations by C. Kerr. including frontispiece with tissue guard of rhino tossing man into the air.

Seller: Bristol Books Bristol, Bristol, BRIST, United Kingdom

HAGGARD, H. Rider.. Maiwa's Revenge; or, The War of the Little Hand.. 1891, 1891.

Price: US$30.24 + shipping

Description: London: Longmans, Green, 1891. Sm. 8vo. Original cloth. (116, 24pp.). Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. With 8 b/w illustrations. Some rubbing and foxing otherwise very good copy, Ist illustrated edition.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Haggard, H. Rider. Maiwa's Revenge or, the War of the Little Hand. Longmans, Green, an Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 115pp; illustrated; random foxing; front hinge cracked slightly, fep. missing; red decorated boards; light edgewear, ring mark to the front, booksellers stamp inside rear board. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom

HAGGARD, H. Rider.. Maiwa's Revenge.. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891., 1891.

Price: US$132.67 + shipping

Description: First Illustrated edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth dec. in black in upper cover, (viii), (116), (4)pp. ads, 24pp.ads witn "7.91" at foot of last page. With 8 illustrations by C. Kerr. (this edition does not have a frontis, nor is a frontis called for in the list of illustrations.) Bookplate, spine slightly faded with some rubbing at ends o/w very good.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada

H. Rider Haggard. Maiwa's Revenge. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$149.45 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first illustrated edition of this short adventure novel by H Rider Haggard. The first illustrated edition of this work. A short novel concerned with the hunter Allan Quatermain on a hunting expedition to rescue a captured English hunter and avenge African princess Maiwa, who's child has been killed.Written by H Rider Haggard, popular author of Victorian literature known for pioneering the 'lost world' literary genre.With five leaves of advertisements and twenty four leaves of publisher's catalogue. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards lightly soiled. Previous ownership inscription to front pastedown. Minor neat loss to upper outer corner front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean with a touch of age toning, as usual. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

H. Rider Haggard. Maiwa's Revenge. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1891.

Price: US$155.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first illustrated edition of this short H. Rider Haggard novel, following a hunter set on revenge. The first edition thus of this work, being the first illustrated edition.'Maiwa's Revenge' is a short novel about Allan Quatermain, a hunter who is on an expedition to rescue a capture hunter, and to avenge the death of the baby of the African princess Maiwa.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Collated, complete.Written by H. Rider Haggard, an adventure novelist known for pioneering the lost world genre. He wrote on the lighter end of Victorian literature, also being involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire.Thirty-six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Prior owner's ink inscription and bookseller's label to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. A couple of minor marks to the boards. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is discoloured. A couple of small cracks to the rear joint. Prior owner's ink inscription and bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spots. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

H. Rider Haggard. Maiwa's Revenge; or, The War of the Little Hand. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK illustrated edition - 1st thus. Green cloth variant [only copy I have seen] decorated and lettered in black. Tissue guarded frontispiece and seven additional plates [all present] by C.H.M. Kerr. Whatmore F7 6(a); Scott 10. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1891), 115 pages. A nice VG copy with toning spine, modest soil. toned end pages, remains of removed bookplate on front paste down. Soil stain at fore edge of rear fee end page.

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

H. Rider Haggard. Maiwa's Revenge; or, The War of the Little Hand. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$185.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First UK illustrated edition - 1st thus. Tan or light brown cloth decorated and lettered in black. Tissue guarded frontispiece and seven additional plates [all present] by C.H.M. Kerr. Four pages of ads at rear. Whatmore F7 6(a); Scott 10. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1891), 115 pages. Fine with toned end pages, slightly curled tips, modest wear.

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

HAGGARD, H. Rider. Maiwa's Revenge; or, The War of the Little Hand. , 1891.

Price: US$192.50 + shipping

Description: HAGGARD, H. Rider. Maiwa's Revenge; or, The War of the Little Hand. Original red decorated cloth. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891. First illustrated edition. Scott 10, note. With 8 plates by Charles Kerr. 4)pp. ads, 24pp.ads with "7/91" at foot of last page. Foot of spine just lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

HAGGARD, H. Rider.. Maiwa's Revenge.. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891., 1891.

Price: US$265.35 + shipping

Description: First Illustrated edition, variant binding. 8vo., orig. orange dec. in black in upper cover, (viii), (116)pp. With 8 illustrations by C. Kerr. (this edition does not have a frontis, nor is a frontis called for in the list of illustrations.) Name o/w a fine copy. Whatmore notes in red cloth with 4pp.ads; this variant binding does not have the 4pp. of adverts at the rear.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada