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HAGGARD, H. Rider. Red Eve. Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$29.52 + shipping
Description: Sound copy in tight binding; dark red cloth with faded gilt titles; pictorial onlay on front board; spine faded; all rather worn. Foxing to end papers, prelims and edges; stamp on front free end paper; well preserved colour frontis; only 3 of 4 illustrations, as one missing from page 210. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. rebound in later green cloth. (2), frontis, [4 (1 blank)], vii-ix, [1 (blank)], 296 pages.; 4 plates (including fontis). First edition. Lacks the 16-page catalogue of Hodder & Staughton publications. Rebound in neat green cloth. Occasional faint spots of foxing and minor bumping to several page edges. Frontispiece lacks tissue guard. Overall very good. Contents are otherwise unmarked, tightly bound. 4 color illustrations, including a color frontis (the latter pictured in the main image), by A. C. Michael. Provenance: Signature of E.G. Robey, 1915 on front free endpaper. Bookseller label of W.H. smith & Son's Library (London) on rear pastedown. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. Red Eve. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911, 1911.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good. Gilt on spine and front board still strong. Striking raised panel decoration. Boards a little rubbed. Leaves are clean apart from minor foxing on edges. Minor rubbing on boards. Top edge browned and a tape stain inside back board and back free endpaper. Equally striking full page colour plates within. Photos on request. One of the author's more interesting later titles and nice to have in first edition. BoB Africana. Hardback. No dj.
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
H. Rider Haggard. Red Eve. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition Variant in red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and cover and with the frontispiece illustration pasted to front cover within a blind [rather than black] border. Four full page color illustrations including the frontispiece by A. C. Michael. 16 page catalog at rear. Scott 57: Whatmore F37. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1911), 296 pages. Good. Spine has soil and fading and has a small cloth tear. edge wear, 1 1/2" square top corner of f.f.e is cut out.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hodder & Stoughton's Sixpenny Novels #276. Digest sized magazine with full color cover; spine and back cover lettered in blue. Approximately 21.5 X 15 cm. Undated; however, at the base of page 128 is "First Sixpenny Edition" London: Hodder & Stoughton (n.d.), 128 pages + wraps This Good+ copy has reading stress marks along spine, chipped heel, and a soil stain on back cover. Signature in pencil on title page, cream to tan colored un-brittle pages.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard.. RED EVE.. , 1911.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1911, London, Hodder and Stoughton, first edition, ppix + 296, colour frontispiece and three other colour plates, red pictorial cloth.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. Red Eve. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition in red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and cover and with the frontispiece illustration pasted to front cover within a black border. Four full page color illustrations including the tissue guarded frontispiece by A. C. Michael. 16 page catalog at rear. Scott 57: Whatmore F37. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1911), 296 pages. Good: Creased spine, cloth and cover illustration with some wear and rubbing, cracked hinges.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. Red Eve. Hodder and Stoughton [1911], London, 1911.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No signatures. Very slight rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. ; ix, 296 pages + colour frontis + colour plates. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pictorial paper illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 190mm x 120mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
H.Rider Haggard. Red Eve. Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red Eve, H.Rider Haggard, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911, First Edition First Impression This is a historical novel with fantasy elements set in the reign of Edward III. The story depicts the Battle of Crecy and the Black Death and also features a supernatural personification of Death called Murgh. This is a First Edition First Impression in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards are clean with an intact picture of Murgh attached to the front board and the gilt lettering on the front board and spine is bright. There is some shelf wear to the top and bottom edge of the spine. The slightly toned and foxed front papers and pages are clean without marks or tears. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. Red Eve. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and cover and with the frontispiece illustration pasted to front cover within a black border. Four full page color illustrations including the tissue guarded frontispiece by A. C. Michael. 16 page catalog at rear. Scott 57: Whatmore F37. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1911), 296 pages. VG copy with modestly faded spine, some edge wear and some spots on back cover. Toned f.f.e with inked gift inscription dated 1912, small bookstore stamp on rear paste down.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. RED EVE. Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: RED EVE, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, first edition, spine splitting at rear hinge, fraying to the head of the spine, else a good to very good copy in the publishers original binding with unbroken inner hinges and 4 full color plates as well as color pictorial inlay to the front cover.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider.. Red Eve.. London: Hodder and Stoughton., 1911.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo., 296 pp., Very Good, Red Cloth with Decorative Panel and Faux Gilding, with some rubbing, minor staining, edge wear and sun-fading on covers; spine with wear at head and tail, & 2 vertical creases; foxing, pencil scribbles on FFEPs, previous owner's ALS penciled on FFEP, staining on end papers and some front portions of text block, minor staining & foxing on edges of text block, some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle. Protective Mylar Jacket. Four Color Plates by A. C. Michael. First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard. Red Eve. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this exciting adventure novel from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. With a colour frontispiece and three colour plates. Collated complete. A historical novel with fantasy elements, set during the reign of Edward III. The novel depicts the Battle of Crecy and the Black Death, with a supernatural death-like figure known as Murgh. 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. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor wear to the extremities and light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Further scattered spotting to the first and last few pages with light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H Rider Haggard. Red Eve - Bookplate of Frederick William Mills.. Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 1911.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1911. Bookplate of Frederick William Mills. was born in 1868 to Charles Mills and his wife Emma (née Walker) who lived in 'Thornleigh', Edgerton. He was their only son. His father was a solicitor in Huddersfield. He went on to become a famous early photographer and microscope expert. He published a number of book on both subjects. Historical themed novel with fantasy/supernatural elements set in the reign of Edward III. The story depicts the Battle of Crecy and the Black Death and also features a supernatural personification of Death called Murgh.Tissue guarded colour frontispiece, & 3 other colour plates. Book is very good++ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. End papers darkened and age toned.Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18469
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Rider Haggard, H.:. Red Eve.. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911., 1911.
Price: US$292.70 + shipping
Description: First edition. ix, 296 pp + 16 pp ads. Tissue guarded colour frontispiece, & 3 other colour plates. A few pages of text finger marked. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. A little light foxing on prelims. Front hinge partially cracked. Bottom edge untrimmed. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Colour illustration of man in red cloak pasted onto front board. Edges of spine lightly rubbed. Corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland