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    By H. Rider Haggard
    London   Longmans, Green, and Co
    8" by 5.5" xv [2], 2-292, 24pp
    The first edition of H. Rider Haggard's thrilling late nineteenth century work, unusual for a Victorian novel in that its entire cast of characters is South African and black.
    By H. Rider Haggard

    1892 Nada the Lily

    London   Longmans, Green, and Co
    8" by 5.5" xv [2], 2-292, 24pp
    The first edition of H. Rider Haggard's thrilling late nineteenth century work, unusual for a Victorian novel in that its entire cast of characters is South African and black.
    £44.00
    : 1kgs / : 960F46
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition, first issue, with the publisher's catalogue to the rear dated February 1892 as called for. 

    McKay, 18a.

    Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty-two monochrome plates. Collated, complete. 

    A historical novel telling the story of the early life of the hero Umslopogaas, the unacknowledged son of the great Zulu king and general Chaka.

    Inscription to half title of E. Spratley.

    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.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with minor loss in these regions. Back strip lightly age toned. Head of rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Evidence of bookplate removal to front free endpaper. Inscription to half title. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, but generally clean and bright.

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