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Benita
by H Rider Haggard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cassell & Company, Limited , 1906. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Gordon Browne. The first edition of H Rider Haggard's illustrated ovel concerned with the clairvoyant heroine Benita. The first edition of this work, with frontispiece, sixteen illustrations by Gordon Browne, title page as well as contents and illustration lists in red and black. With eight pages of 'New Fiction' advertisements followed by eight leaves of publishers catalogue, both dated 7.06, as called for. Collated, complete.Adventure novel set in Africa and following Benita and her assistance in a hunt for a lost Portuguese treasure buried in the Transvaal. H Rider Haggard was a famous English writer of adventure fiction, mainly known for the use of exotic settings and as a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Externally smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip lightly faded, boards only lightly marked. Gentle cocking forward of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 867A8
- Title
- Benita
- Author
- H Rider Haggard
- Illustrator
- Gordon Browne
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- h rider haggard first editions gordon browne first editions
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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