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Haggard (H. Rider)

CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS. (Author's first book)

Published: Trübner & Co, London, 1882

Edition: First edition

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or, Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal.

xix + 294 pages, original green cloth gilt – top and bottom of the spine and corners a little worn, a label appears to have been removed from the front cover leaving a slight residue, bookplate  -Walter E. Gurney – on the front paste-down endpaper, binding a little loose, light foxing throughout and on the uncut page edges.

Scott 1. After writing to several publishers in vain with a view to getting this first book published, Messrs. Trübner & Co. agreed to print 750 copies of this work in return for Haggard’s cheque for £50. Only 154 copies were sold in two years and the publisher found this 'most unsatisfactory.'

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (210 x 145 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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