"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Swallow. A Tale of the Great Trek.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. [Historical Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 348. With eight black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Greiffenhagen. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, with bevelled edges and black-coated endpapers, bookshop's small red ticket to pastedown. Ink gift note to h-t., minor spotting, covers lightly handled, mostly clean. Very good indeed. A novel about the Boer trek of 1836. Serialised in The Graphic magazine from July 1898. Item #68234
Whatmore, 'H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography' (London 1987), F22.
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