H Rider Haggard - She, Longmans & Co, 1892

H Rider Haggard - She, Longmans & Co, 1892

She established many conventions of the "lost world" subgenre, influencing countless adventure and fantasy stories, from the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs to the Indiana Jones film series.   The novel has never been out of print and has sold over 83 million copies in 44 languages as of 1965. It has been adapted into films, comics, and other media numerous times and cited as an influence by figures like Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Original cloth in fine condition.  Faded to spine and bumped top and bottom.   Bumped corners.  Hingecrack and rubbed endpapers front of book.  New Edition with 32 illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H M Kerr.  Foxing to leaves through the book, but all readable.  Foxing to fore and tail edge pages.  Pencil notations.  A fine copy.

Weight   565g.    Pages  277.