"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht

New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title page or verso of the frontispiece to a handful of volumes, corner lost on page 333 of The Wanderer's Necklace volume, not affecting text. Some leaves with fold marks. Generally bright and clean, externally fine. A superb set of the works of H. Rider Haggard, writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Item #48114
Price: £3,000.00