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Price: US$108.97 + shipping
Description: [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first state with misprint to p.79, line 16 'very' for 'every'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.316, with five colour plate illustrations by Wal Paget. Publisher's mid-green cloth, with gilt and black titles and a colour illustration laid down to upper. Contents clean, some edge toning, cloth lightly handled and rubbed. Very good indeed. An elusive Haggard, which was not issued in the US, this novel is an historical fiction; a medieval adventure set around 'Blossholme Abbey', packed with charging horses, Knights, noblemen and fair maidens.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. The Lady of Blossholme. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this historical novel from popular Victorian writer, H. Rider Haggard. First edition. With a colour frontispiece. A charming historical novel, set during the reign of Henry VIII following a Cicely and the man she has loved since childhood, featuring the Pilgrimage of Grace. 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. A first issue with the misprint to page 79, line 16, the word "very" for "every" as cited in "A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard 1856-1925" by J. E. Scott. In the original green cloth binding with a colour plate mounted to the front board. Externally, smart with minor bumping and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. The Lady of Blossholme. Hodder and Staughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$185.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition in a variant binding of this historical novel by H. Rider Haggard, with the first edition misprint. The first edition in a variant binding, bound with the sheets only without the frontispiece and illustrations, as issued. With the first edition first issue misprint to page 79 line 16 with the word "very" for "every", as cited in "A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard 1856-1925" by J. E. Scott.In the publisher's original blue cloth.A charming historical novel, set during the reign of Henry VIII following Cicely and the man she has loved since childhood, and featuring the Pilgrimage of Grace. 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 publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with fading to the spine, bumping and slight rubbing to the extremities and rubbing to the joints. Offsetting to the free endpapers. Front hinge starting after front blank. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with the odd minor handling mark and very light spotting to the half title. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom