Author: H. Rider Haggard
Title: The Witch&Apos;S Head: A Novel
Description: London, Spencer Blackett, 1888. Cloth. A smart early edition of this work written by popular Victorian novelist H. Rider Haggard. Early edition, originally published 1885. Dated from publisher's advertisements. With a colour frontispiece. The second novel from the author, written just prior to King Solomon's Mines. When a discovery of a box containing a well-preserved Saxon woman's head is made in a cemetery collapsing into the sea, the finders deem her to have been a witch. From this point on, things start to go wrong for those surrounding the discovery. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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