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ALLAN QUATERMAIN: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS FURTHER ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES IN COMPANY WITH SIR HENRY CURTIS, BART., COMMANDER JOHN GOOD, R.N. AND ONE UMSLOPOGAAS ...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Large octavo, pp. [i-ix] x [xi] xii [1] 2-335 [336] [note: Scott counts frontispiece and flyleaves as part of his collation of preliminary and terminal leaves but the former is inserted and not an integral part of gathering (A) and the latter are not part of gatherings (A) or Y], flyleaves at front and rear, twenty inserted plates with mounted illustrations by C. H. M. Kerr printed on India paper, other illustrations (also printed on India paper) affixed to text leaves, title leaf printed in orange and black, original brown pebbled cloth with brown morocco shelf back, spine lettered in gold, vertical gold rules on front and rear panels, green and gold marbled endpapers, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 112 numbered copies comprising the special issue on large paper (this is copy number 62). "The lost-race novel par excellence, setting up many of the motifs and fictional patterns that became an integral part of the subgenre ... As fiction, one of Haggard's more successful works ... Historically, of course, it is one of the most important nineteenth-century works of popular fiction." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 973. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-86; (1981) 1-87; (1987) 1-44; and (1995) 1-44. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 377. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 101. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, pp. 22-5. Bleiler (1978), p. 89. Reginald 06520. Wolff 2839. Scott 7A. Whatmore F6.6.a.
MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER ...
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [ix] x [1] 2-328 + [8]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen, original apple green cloth, front panel stamped in brown, spine panel stamped in brown and gold. First U.S. edition. Published in November 1893 (announced in Publishers Weekly 11 November 1893) and may have preceded the British edition published 13 November 1893. McKay assigns priority to this U.S. edition. Both Scott and Whatmore, in error, describe a later printing with title page dated 1894 and copyright statement erroneously dated 1892 on copyright page. Bleiler (1978), p. 90. Reginald 06554. McKay 19. Scott 20A. Whatmore F16.6.f.
THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST.
London: Longmans & Co., 1894. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
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London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [c. late 1920s]. Small octavo, original decorated maroon boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Later printing. Popular mass reprint edition. This edition of the title includes a two page editor's note commenting on the death of Haggard (May 14, 1925) and some biographical and bibliographical information. The Readers Library was established in 1924 to bring well known novels at the cheapest price to readers.