Mr. Meeson's Will: A Novel
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Very Good. Item #13891
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],270,[2],12pp. Boards scuffed with some brief loss of marbled paper at extremities, textblock uniformly toned and brittle from poor paper quality, else Very Good and sound overall.
Early Haggard novel based on a popular contemporary "fait divers," of a marooned man's will being discovered tattooed upon a woman's back. Additionally, Haggard later claimed that the book's description of the sinking of the fictitious liner the Kangaroo perfectly anticipated the sinking of the Titanic almost twenty-five years later.
[Scott 9b (calling for just seven leaves of publisher's advertisements in rear); Whatmore F8c].
Price: $60.00