Haggard (H. Rider) Allan’s Wife.
£250
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914
Hodder & Stoughton Sevenpenny library, first edition thus. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
First published in U.K. in 1889, this is the first edition where getting a jacketed example is feasible.
A long ‘short’ story featuring Allan Quatermain in which following his father’s death, Allan fights with Zulus aides by Hans, rescues and marrow who becomes the mother of his son Harry, and eventually loses her because of the jealousy of the Baboon woman.
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VG+/VG – pages browned, no inscriptions in a pictorial jacket with a small chip to the top of the spine.
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