Allan Quatermain.
by HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 1887 ink ownership signature partially effaced from the front free endpaper; cloth rubbed at corner tips and extremities of spin
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but God's will be done. Who am I that I should complain? The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all. We do not prostrate ourselves before it like the poor Indians; we fly hither and thither we cry for mercy; but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69258
- Title
- Allan Quatermain.
- Author
- HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Illustrator
- Illustrated from engraved plates and text illustrations.
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's beveled gilt-lettered cloth.
- Book Condition
- Used - 1887 ink ownership signature partially effaced from the front free endpaper; cloth rubbed at corner tips and extremities of spin
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1887.
- Pages
- 287 [2] pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
Terms of Sale
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
About the Seller
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