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H. Rider Haggard; Andrew Lang. The World's Desire. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1890.
Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang's interesting fantasy novel reworking the myth of Odysseus. The first edition, the issue bound without adverts, as stated in 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir H. Rider Haggard' by J. E. Scott.A fantasy novel following the journey of Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca, only to find that his home has been ravaged by the plague, and his wife has been murdered.Written by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang.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.Andrew Lang is a noted collector of folk and fairy tales, known for his extensive and colourful 'Fairy Books'. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Tear to the head and tail of the front joint, and to the spine. Some light marks to the boards and spine, with discolouration to the tail of the front board. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spotting. Tide mark to the first few pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$173.16 + shipping
Description: The first edition of this essay in verse from Ella Haggard with a memoir written by her son H. Rider Haggard. First thus. With a portrait frontispiece from a miniature. An essay in verse by Ella Haggard, an English author and poet. Accompanied by a memoir of her life from her son, 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 full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear. Light fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1890.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An association copy of the first edition of Andrew Lang's second fairy book. Inscribed by Lang's friend and collaborator H. Rider Haggard to Haggard's own children, Dolly and Angie. The first edition of this work.The verso of the original front blank inscribed by novelist H. Rider Haggard with the message 'To Angie and Dolly from their Dad, 29. Nov, 1890'.Angela and Dorothy Haggard were the middle two of Haggard's four children, and would have been seven and six years old respectively at the time of publication.Lang and Haggard were personal friends, co-authoring the fantast novel 'The World's Desire' in 1890. Lang has also helped Haggard plan and revise the novels 'She', 'Allan's Wife', 'Beatrice', 'Eric Brighteyes', 'Nada the Lily' and also added poems to 'Cleopatra'.Illustrated with a frontispiece, three plates and numerous vignette illustrations by Henry Justice Ford and Lancelot Speed. Collated, complete.Including tales such as 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Rapunzel', 'Snowdrop', 'The Golden Goose', and more.With twenty pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.Andrew Lang is best known for these collections of fairy tales, and was an avid collector of folk and fairy tales. He was a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. Rebacked, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with original back strip laid down and boards restored. Endpapers renewed. Discolouration to back strip. Bumping to fore edge of board, with small losses of cloth to board head and tail. Inscribed leaf tipped in between front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Marginal tape repairs to margin and tail of half title, frontispiece, title page, and following three leaves. Pages a touch age toned, with light handling marks throughout. Instances of spotting and foxing throughout. Further tape repairs to tail of pages 240 and 242. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom