"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
The Mahatma and The Hare. A Dream Story.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 165 [3]. With 12 illustrations by W.T. Horton and H.M. Brock. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. Offsetting to endpapers, with an illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Gently toned throughout, otherwise internally clean. Wear and sunning to spine, with some dulling to gilt, and a 5cm split to the lower joint. Good. An obscure spiritual fantasy novel published in the autumn of 1911, which sold poorly at the time due to its anti-bloodsport sentiment. Item #75833
Whatmore, 'H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography' (London 1987), F38; Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature.
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