The Lady of the Heavens
New York: Frank F. Lovell Comapny, 1908.
First American Edition. Hardcover.
First American Edition. Scott #50A. American title of The Ghost Kings. With scarab-crested bookplate of entomologist Melville Harrison Hatch (1909-1988), author of the definitive 5-volume work Beetles of the Pacific Northwest.
Novel of fantasy and the supernatural set amongst the Zulu tribes of what is now South Africa. Haggard's friend and fellow anti-Bolshevik Rudyard Kipling collaborated with Haggard on the plot.
Item #9013585-1/8 x 7-7/8", gilt decorated and titled green cloth, viii, 342pp.
Small stain front endpapers and title-page, darkening to spine, slight spine lean, clean of owner’s marks, very good.
Price: $150.00