THE ANNOTATED SHE: A Critical Edition of H. Rider Haggard's Victorian Romance

First edition, first printing. The classic novel SHE is a selection in The Fantasy Best 100 Books, The Horror Best 100 Books, and the NESFA Core Reading List. The first of two lost world, lost race, dark fantasy novels featuring Aeysha, here complimented with extensive, fascinating and critical footnotes, lengthier rear section notes, and a generous critical introduction by historian and scholar, Etherington. Fine, square, and very tight in sturdy blue linen with gilt embossed rules and winged-animal Visions motif to the front cover, gilt embossed titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, barely perceptible rubs to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a minuscule crimp to the lower corner tip of the rear panel. Large octavo: 9.7" X 6.5"; 241 pages; Notes; Selected Bibliography; plus 29 page critical introduction; plus chronology through 1887.