The Ivory Child
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1916. Very Good. Item #45782
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1916. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 344pp. Boards in brown cloth with blind and gilt stamping. Board corners, spine ends, and hinges rubbed and bumped with slight wear to extremities. Endsheets toned with offsetting and minor erasure abrasion to first free endsheet. Previous owner bookplate to first paste down. Pages otherwise clean. A Very Good copy of Haggard's eighth Allan Quartermain novel, and potentially the first example of an elephant graveyard in fiction.
Scott 66.
Price: $75.00
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