1914 The Wanderer's Necklace

Description

First Edition, Illustrated

The first UK edition of this work in the scarce variant brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front board and spine, with a dark green design and a double-line blind border to the front board. Corresponds with issue points for the first edition according to Scott 62.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and a further three black-and-white plates by A. C. Michael. Collated, complete.

In this novel, H. Rider Haggard writes of Olaf's adventures after challenging the Norse god Odin's right to a human sacrifice.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English author who specialised in adventure fiction set in exotic locations, primarily Africa. He was a pioneer of the ‘Lost World’ literary genre.