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    By H. Rider Haggard
    London   Cassell and Company
    8" by 5.5" 2-344pp
    The first edition of the eighth Allan Quatermain novel from H. Rider Haggard, a work that purportedly includes the earliest example of the idea of the elephant graveyard being used in fiction.
    By H. Rider Haggard

    1916 The Ivory Child

    London   Cassell and Company
    8" by 5.5" 2-344pp
    The first edition of the eighth Allan Quatermain novel from H. Rider Haggard, a work that purportedly includes the earliest example of the idea of the elephant graveyard being used in fiction.
    £40.00
    : 1kgs / : 960F44
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    Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition of this work. McKay, 57. Printer's imprint with code "F.135.1115" at tail of page 344, as called for.

    Originally published in serial form in various newspapers, starting in January 1915, this first edition in book form was published on 6 January 1916 in a print-run of 13,000 copies.

    Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and three plates from artist A. C. Michael. Collated, complete.

    When Allan Quatermain visits Lord Randall, two foreign priests of the White Kendah People come asking for Macumazana, the name he once used among the Africans.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light rubbing to joints. Front joint head and tail starting, with board firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. One plate detached, and loosely inserted. Frontispiece a touch tenderly held to tail. Pages lightly age toned, with spotting and foxing to page perimeters throughout.

    Good

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