SHE - A History of Adventure In Two Volumes de Haggard, H. Rider - 1897

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. Very Good-. 1897. Hardcover. Collection of British Authors Nos. 2445-2446; Two volume set, contents clean and secure in contemporary binding of brown leather spines and corners with patterned boards and endpapers; gilt lettering and decorative devices at spines; leather rubbed and Vol. II chipped badly. Top edges gilt. Per Todd and Bowden: Vol. 1: H:34; Td@2--; (9), 10-271 text; C3. Vol. 2: H:--; Td@2--; (7), 8-246 text; C3. Likely 2445f and 2446d. Wrappers and publisher's ads not bound in. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father’s quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has been waiting for centuries for the true descendant of Kallikrates, her murdered lover, to arrive, and arrive he does – in an unexpected form. Blending breathtaking adventure with a brooding sense of mystery and menace, She is a story of romance, exploration discovery and heroism that has lost none of its power to enthrall. .