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Haggard, H. Rider.
The Ghost Kings.
Publisher: Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney;
Date of Publication: 1935
Stock Code: 15446
Ninth edition after the first of 1908. Octavo, pp., [viii], 303, [1]. Publisher’s original tangerine cloth; titled in black to spine; black rules to boards; white end-papers. In the original bright orange pictorial dust-jacket; advertisements to flaps and to lower panel. Contemporary coupon bookmark tipped in to front. Creasing to spine and lower panel; minor nicks to extremities; spine panel sunned; otherwise a bright jacket. Slight shelf-wear to corners; cloth bright; the binding strong and square. Foxing to fore-edge but internally clean. A very good copy in like jacket. A bright copy of a later Haggard mystery-adventure novel. Bleiler writes ‘an excellent long, detailed description of pioneer life on the veldt is a strong point, but the romance is extraneous and weak.’ £85.00