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    By Sir H. Rider Haggard; C. J. Longman [ed.]
    London   Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd
    9.5" by 6" xxv, 294; ix, 286pp
    A smart first edition of H. Rider Haggard's insightful autobiography, published posthumously and illustrated throughout.
    By Sir H. Rider Haggard; C. J. Longman [ed.]

    1926 The Days of My Life: An Autobiography

    London   Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd
    9.5" by 6" xxv, 294; ix, 286pp
    A smart first edition of H. Rider Haggard's insightful autobiography, published posthumously and illustrated throughout.
    £135.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 985Y41
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    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    First edition. Complete in two volumes. 

    In the publisher's cloth binding. 

    Illustrated throughout, including a frontispiece and eight plates to Vol. I and a frontispiece and six plates plates to Vol. II. 

    Collated, complete. 

    Published the year after his death, H. Rider Haggard's autobiography covers the first fifty-six years of his life, commencing with his earliest recollections and exploring his life and prolific career. With anecdotes of his friendship with Andrew Lang, travels, marriage, writing, politics and his reassimilation into rural England life. 

    Haggard was best known for his adventure romance novels set in exotic locations and as a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. His stories, including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.

    Condition

    In the publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spines. With a 1" horizontal closed tear to the head of Vol I. backstrip. With two decorative bookplates to the front pastedowns, one with the initials 'MH' and one belonging to Saint Francis Library. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a rule plate of the Saint Francis Library and reference number to the front free endpaper. Subsequential offsetting to the following blank leaf. Scattered spots throughout, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Chip to the corner of p. xiii, with tape reinforced.

    Very Good

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