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H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma And The Hare. Longmans, Green & Co., 1911.
Price: US$16.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1911. 164 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.18 + shipping
Description: 12mo (19.5x13cm), hardback, 165pp. Good condition. No dustwrapper. Red with black lettering and illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Bumped, lightly frayed at corners and foot of spine, a few surface scuff marks and dents. Age-toned, endpapers discoloured, faint traces of lettering to front pastedown, uncut. Contents good, clear and bright. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma And The Hare. Longmans, Green & Co., 1911.
Price: US$28.92 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1911. First Edition. 164 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Front endpaper missing. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine and board edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
HAGGARD, H. Rider. The Mahatma and the hare: a dream story. Longmans, Green, London, 1911.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Description: Illus by W.Horton & H.Brock Gift inscription on blank page; spine faded & a little bumped with worn lettering. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in red cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
HAGGARD, H. Rider. The Mahatma and The Hare. Longmans, London, 1911.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated. Thin 8vo, red cloth, spine darkened and rubbed; end-leaves toned. London: Longmans, Green, 1911. First Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$61.87 + shipping
Description: 4 Bl., 164 S., 12 Illustr. auf Tafeln. Illustrierter roter OLwdbd (berieben u. etwas begriffen, Kapitale bestoßen, Vorsätze stärker, sonst durchgehend etwas gebräunt). Sprache: Englisch
Seller: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
Haggard, H. Rider. The Mahatma and the Hare. Longmans, Green 1911 1st ed., 1911.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NF Red cloth. Illustrated. Spine slightly faded, owner inscription on ffe, else nearly fine copy. Fantasy
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story by H. Rider Haggard (First Edition) A firm bright copy. Leaned. Slight spine panel crease. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered gilt, cpictorial black stamping to cover. 12 full-page illustration plates.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE. Longmans, Green & Co., 1911.
Price: US$101.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1911. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. A Dream Story. Red cloth, black titles and silhouette illustration to front. 164 pages. B/w plates. Spine and corners bumped, a couple of tiny indentations to cover edges. Spine faded. Covers a bit grubby. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Endpapers are lightly browned and there is some light foxing to outer page edges. Otherwise contents are clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma and The Hare: A Dream Story. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1911.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this spiritual novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. Straying from the author's usual adventure genre to a more spiritual novel that discusses animal rights, with the central figure being a hare who is recounting the hardships he and his family have encountered. 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. Illustrated by William Thomas Horton, an English visual artist, and Henry Matthew Brock, a British illustrator and landscape painter In the original full red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
W. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare A Dream Story. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1911.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [ix] 164pp. Red cloth w gilt title to spine and black title and illustration to front panel. Some light discolouration to cloth and spine lightly sunned and bumped at head and foot.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare , A Dream Story. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1911.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of H. Rider Haggard's spiritual novel, illustrated throughout by W. T. Horton and H. M. Brock. The first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. With a frontispiece and eleven plates by W. T. Horton and H. M. Brock. Collated complete. H. M. Brock was a British illustrator and landscape painter best known for illustrating 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens. W. T. Horton was a mystic, illustrator and author, known for his spiritual art. An interesting novel by H. Rider Haggard, straying away from his usual adventure genre with a more spiritual novel that discusses animal rights, with the central figure being a hare who is recounting the hardships he and his family have encountered. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was a prolific English writer, specialising in adventure fiction and romance. Most of his works are set in exotic locations such as Africa. The half title page is present. In the publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, smart with some shelf wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine and to the edges of the front board. A few small marks to the boards. Age-toning to the edges of the paste-downs Offsetting to the free endpapers. Internally, binding slightly strained but still firmly bound. Pages lightly age-toned to the edges but otherwise very bright and clean. The odd small mark throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. Mahatma and The Hare: A Dream Story. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1911.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and lettered and decorated in black on cover. Frontispiece and 11 other b/w illustrations by W.T. Horton and H. M. Brock. Scott 58: Whatmore F38. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1911), 165 pages. This VG bright copy has slight sun fading to spine with soft spine ends and toning end papers, no tissue guard.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare a Dream Story. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of Henry Rider Haggard's existential novel 'The Mahatma and the Hare', illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. 'The Mahatma and the Hare' follows a man who has lost his wife and daughter as he contemplates suicide, and his existential journey to happiness. With a frontispiece, and eleven plates. Henry Rider Haggard wrote many adventure novels, mostly set in Africa. During his youth he was sent to South Africa by his father, and the years he spent in Africa gave him the experience and ideas for his future adventure novels. 'King Solomon's Mines' was his first novel, and he quickly followed it with the sequel 'Allan Quatermain'. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. A little fading to the spine. Minor marks to the boards. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare. Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "A Dream Story". VG; red cloth boards have faded to a pinker shade; spine darkened with a color scratch at heel. A very presentable copy.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo; publisher's pictorial red cloth, titled in gilt on spine; [x],[1]-164,[4]pp. Illustrations by W.T. Horton and H.M. Brock. Endpapers slightly age-toned; shadow of removed bookplate to front free endpaper; a tight, straight, Very Good copy, with gilt and pictorial elements of binding well-preserved. Blind-embossed bookseller's stamp (Henry Bolton, Hull) to upper fore-corner of front endpaper. BLEILER (1978) p.90; REGINALD 06549. LOCKE (Spectrum of Fantasy) p.101.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE. Longmans, Green, 1911.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE, Longmans, Green, 1911, first edition, spine a bit faded, else just about a vg copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE. Longmans, Green, 1911.
Price: US$156.60 + shipping
Description: THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE, Longmans, Green, 1911, first edition, spine a bit faded with gold-gilt letteirng beginning to flake, off white colored splash at the base of the spine effecting 3 letters of the publishers name, lower rear fore edge corner tip very gently bumped, else a tight very good to very good+ copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Haggard, H. Rider. The Mahatma And The Hare - A Dream Story. Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: Scarce. 12 black & white illustrations including frontispiece. There is a rubber stamped name & address on the front pastedown and very light ghosting to endpapers. All else is extremely clean inside. Firm red cloth boards, some very light marks to back boards and a faded spine.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Haggard, H. Rider. The Mahatma and the Hare. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth Design and lettering blocked in black on front cover. Lettered and ruled in gilt on spine An uncommon and uncommonly strange book Except for a bit of spine fading, this is a nearly fine copy
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Haggard (H. Rider).. The Mahatma and the Hare; a dream story. Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1911.
Price: US$202.91 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece and plates by W.T. Horton and H.M. Brock Cloth a little marked and worn, spine somewhat just a little spotting to fore-edge, nevertheless a nice copy; ownership stamp on front free end-paper Scott 58; McKay 51 One of the authors more unusual publications and an attractively bound and illustrated book. Original red cloth lettered and decorated in black, spine lettered in gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Haggard (H. Rider).. The Mahatma and the Hare; a dream story. Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1911.
Price: US$202.91 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece and plates by W.T. Horton and H.M. Brock Spine sunned, sides a little faded at edges, minor damage to upper joint and upper cover scratched, just a little spotting, nevertheless a nice copy Scott 58; McKay 51 One of the authors more unusual publications and an attractively bound and illustrated book. Original red cloth lettered and decorated in black, spine lettered in gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Haggard, H. Rider. The Mahatma and the Hare. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth Design and lettering blocked in black on front cover. Lettered and ruled in gilt on spine An uncommon and uncommonly strange book A nearly fine copy with a few small bubbles on the rear cover
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Haggard, Henry Rider. The Mahatma and The Hare: A Dream Story.. Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original red cloth, illustrated in black to the front, 165 printed pages complete with 12 illustrations correct as list. Comes with the original dust jacket which is correctly priced 2/6 to the spine. Condition: The spine lettering is a dull black and I can't quite tell if it was originally gilt but has now oxidised, it is quite bumped to the spine ends and has slight foxing to the fore edge and end papers, otherwise a tidy book with a tight binding and no inscriptions. The dust jacket is chipped to the corners and spine ends, is browned to the spine and has an unfaded patch over the spine price where presumably there was once a price sticker.
Seller: Knights Rare Books (Est. 1994), Glastonbury, SOMER, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. Mahatma and The Hare: A Dream Story. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1911.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed first edition in red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and lettered and decorated in black on cover. Frontispiece and 11 other b/w illustrations by W.T. Horton and H. M. Brock. Neatly inscribed in black ink on the half-title page: "To Mrs. Pitt/from/H. Rider Haggard/Ditchingham/14 Nov. 1911". Sarah Pitt was a fellow author and friend of HRH. Scott 58: Whatmore F38. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1911), 165 pages. This VG copy has slight sun fading to spine with soft spine ends, some modest loss from rubbing to cover decoration, and toning end papers.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
H. Rider Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare a Dream Story. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1911.
Price: US$489.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first printing of this uncommon to find spiritual novel by H. Rider Haggard, here in the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper, an early example of a dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.In the original scarce unclipped dust wrapper, uncommon to see such an early dust wrapper, especially in as nice a condition as this.An interesting novel by H. Rider Haggard, straying away from his usual adventure genre with a more spiritual novel that discusses animal rights, with the central figure being a hare who is recounting the hardships he and his family have encountered.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and eleven plates by W. T. Horton and H. M. Brock.Collated, complete.H. Rider Haggard is best known for his adventure romances, normally set in Africa. He is known for being a pioneer of the lost world genre, hish best known works being 'She', 'King Solomon's Mines', and adventure novels featuring Allan Quatermain. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with some marks to the front board. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light spots to the endpapers. Dust wrapper with a small repair to the tail. Very light edge wear. Light spots to the wraps, with a touch of discolouration, mostly to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Bookseller's label to the reverse of the final leaf. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
HAGGARD H RIDER. The Mahatma and the Hare. Longmans, London, 1911.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Description: (London: Longmans, Green and Co 1911). First UK Edition. Publisher's red cloth illustrated and lettered on the front in black and lettered on the spine in gilt. Frontispiece + 11 further illustrations. A neat name and date (from 1917) on the front free end-paper otherwise a VG+ copy. In the VERY RARE D/W priced 2/6 net to the spine (as called for). The D/W has some tissue repairs to the verso and is VG. Laid in is a Catalogue of "Autumn Announcements" from Messrs. Longmans & Co. dated October 11.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom