Ayesha, The Return of She

Garden City and New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1923 A later reprint of the first American Edition (Doubleday Page , 1905.) Hard cover, 12mo, in full red lambskin over boards, with publisher's monogram vignette title blocked in gold to front board, the spine titles within decorative festoons, paste downs in terracotta and white Doubleday Page design, 359pp. Not illustrated. No advertising.** This is the sequel to Haggard's well-received lost civilization adventure genre novel "She," first published in book form 18 years prior in 1887. The story has some elements that will be familiar to fans of the "Outlander" television series, involving time travel through a portal of British standing stones...A manuscript written by the now-deceased Horace Holly is brought along with the sistrum of "She," to the Cumberland estate of the narrator, thence carrying the prior story forward. The adventurers Leo Vincey and his uncle Horace Holly wander through Asia, wintering at a lamasery in Thibet (sic). More travels and adventure bring them within the reaches of their ultimate goal, the discovery of the true reincarnation of Leo's beloved, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.**British Author Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), having spent a number of years as a civil servant in South Africa, made use of his observations as the settings for various Lost Civilization Adventure themed novels, of which he was an important innovator. He would also create the popular "Allan Quartermain" stories, "Montezuma's Daughter," and "King Soloman's Mines."**CONDITION: Near Fine. Original owner's signature to half title, dated October 1925. Slight rubbing to front title, otherwise very clean and well maintained. Bleiler (1978) p. 90. Watson 1055. J. Sutherland (1989) p. 269.. Lambskin Library Edition No. 39. Hard Cover. Near Fine.