Ayesha is a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca.
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Ayesha is a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With slight and inoffensive markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Blue clothbound octavo hardback. Boards attached via repair cloth tape on inner cover. Gilt lettering and a pictorial on cover and backstrip. Backstrip edges are worn. Foxing on page edges and occasional within. Pages from front eng page to title page have aged yellowing. Some smudging but pages are otherwise generally clean and in fair condition. Text remains clear and legible. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN:
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Very good. No jacket. NOT an ex library book. Blue cloth covered book with paste on plate on cover has some wear on spine ends and corners. Clean interior pages.
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Nickless, Will. Good in very good dust jacket. 319 p., [1] p. : ill.; 21 cm. Includes Illustrations. 1957 small format hc 1st thus inscribed by author of the introduction Stuart Cloete to artist Everett Raymond Kinstler on 1/2 title pg. Soil & slight fraying on cover, debossed star on back cover (indicating book club edition), staining on some pages (some causing dampstain rippling), light tanning, soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight. Bibliography: p. 319-[320]
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2 page color frontis, 7.5 x 5", gilt-dec and gilt-lettered blue cloth, 317pp + publ. ads, covers quite worn, extremities fraying, spine ends bumped, spine sunned and cocked, hinges loose, former owners' ink names and inkstamp on half title, pp toned with some scattered finger soiling; a rather well worn copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with spelling errors on pp 59, 126, 258 and 268). SWAF.
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Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. One of the most famous high-spots of the "Lost World" adventure genre that was one of Haggard's specialties. Popular in its day, it has influenced much modern literary fantasy and been made into films. It is necessary to remember that Haggard wrote in a time of Empire, Eugenics, and Social Darwinism; but he personally was not on board with all of those lately discredited beliefs. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Sixth Printing ("Thirty-First to Thirty-Fifth Thousand") of the First Edition. This copy is in a mixed-state: two of the points of issue (p. 59 & p. 126) are present; but the other two (p. 258 & p. 269) have been corrected. Original dark blue cloth binding with beveled edges; titling and decorations in gilt on spine and front cover. Clean text; 317 pages, with two pages of publisher adverts in the rear. Illustrated in the front with two coloured prints of "the Sherd of Amenartas" (an interpretation, not the real item). Tiny contemporary bookseller label on the front paste-down. Slightly cocked; both hinges cracked but holding well. A solid and very attractive copy of this famous tale of adventure. In an archival plastic protector,
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Good. First edition, first issue, with the expected typographic errors of the first printing: 'geneleman', Godness' etc etc. Both the coloured facsimiles of the Sherd of Amenartas as plates I & II are in fine condition. Ex-college library copy with penned name on first title page and with usual labels; otherwise unmarked. Binding, hinges etc. robust. Very little foxing on endpapers. Slight wear to corners of scarcely bumped, bevel-edged, dark boards. Gilt embossed titling on front cover bright; titling on spine fairly bright. The principal defects are a two inch tear to front edge of spine, a couple of little nicks to head of same and slight cracking in the middle of the back edge of the spine. Overall, a handsome, stout copy.
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Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Perhaps Rider's most famous work, after its predecessor "King Solomon's Mines." This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the "Third Edition"-actually the third printing of the First Edition. Blue cloth binding with beveled edges; gilt titling on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 317 pages, with two pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. Bumped, with a small chip to the top of the spine; the last endpaper is missing. The binding remains very bright, perhaps the freshest Quercus has seen, but the gutters are cracking, so weak, and could use some reinforcement. This would be well-worth the effort, to achieve an exceptional copy.