She / A History of Adventure (FIRST PRINTING, ALBEIT WITH 'ENDPAPERS RENEWED')

Haggard, H. Rider / Author of 'King Solomon's Mines,' etc.

Published by Longmans, Green, And Co., London, 1887

Language: English

Condition: Good Hardcover

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A complete first printing of Haggard's classic fantasy, in beveled dark blue cloth boards with gilt titling, the goose cartouche to front board clear, if worn to about 70 percent of original brilliance. Spine rolled about 1/4-inch. Nameplates of Previous Owners George Sergent and Moira Jones to front endpapers. The first-edition typographical errors are present as expected, "geneleman" to page 59, "it compared" to the bottom of pg. 258, "Godness me" to pg. 269. How quickly these errors were corrected is not clear, which makes it puzzling that so little is made of the notice found here to verso of the Contents page, namely that the new Haggard adventure "'Allan Quatermain: Being an Account of His Further Adventures and Discoveries . . .' Is commenced in the January Number of Longman's Magazine," a notice which can only have appeared in the true, December 1886, first printing, which surely would have been dated and thus removed by the middle of January. Betty Blythe starred in the 1925 silent, but Ursula Andress has essentially owned the role of Ayesha -- "She Who Must Be Obeyed" -- since she strode onscreen in the 1965 Hammer film, also featuring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. (Let us not speak of the intervening 1935 stinker which began and ended the film career of Helen Gahagan, thus condemning her to enter politics and famously lose to Richard Nixon after being branded "The Pink Lady.") 317 pp. followed by 2 pp. publisher's ads, including for "Barchester Towers" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Here reduced from $245. Seller Inventory # 011767

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Title: She / A History of Adventure (FIRST PRINTING...

Publisher: Longmans, Green, And Co., London

Publication Date: 1887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

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Eclectic vintage and out-of-print collectable condition books and records in every genre. Cat's Curiosities closed our brick-and-mortar location in Las Vegas in late 2016, and is now an Internet-only seller, specializing in Nevada & The West; Free-market & Austrian Economics; Vintage vinyl LP records (many signed); Century-old juvenile series books; Health & Medicine; Cookbooks (many signed) & Alcoholiana; Travel, Exploration, & Geology.

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