London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne: Cassell & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Front endpaper missing and front hinge starting. Perforations along rear gutter (about 1") and a patch of small black spots to spine. Beyond that, there is a still attractive unmarked copy in caramel cloth with fine monchrome pastedown and blind stamping to front board, and gilt titles to spine. Rectangular pastedown is repeated as illustration on verso of illustrations page. 8 illustrations by Albert Morrow. 54 titles advertised on verso of hafl-title page. 310 pp .

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Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose, passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well satisfied with the lot that Fate has given to my unworthy self.

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Bookseller: B-Line Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 48545
Title: The Ancient Allan
Author: Haggard, H. Rider
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Cassell & Co.
Place of Publication: London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne
Date Published: 1920

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