Beatrice: A Novel
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. Very Good. Item #14654
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First Edition with publisher's advertisements in rear dated 30,000/3/90 at foot of p. 16. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, black glazed endpapers; [8],312,16pp. Spine cocked with cloth quite toned, chipping at spine ends, most notably at crown, corners gently tapped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
[Scott 15; Whatmore F12]
A gloomy, sexy, H. Rider Haggard novel which earned him, at least twice, "anonymous or semi-anonymous letters from ladies who alleged that their husbands, or the husbands of someone connected with them--one of them a middle-aged clergyman--after reading 'Beatrice,' had made advances to young ladies of that name" (cf. Whatmore).
Price: $50.00