Heart of the World
by H. Rider Haggard
Illustrated by B. P. C.
and Amy Sawyer
Longmans Green First Edition
Description: Hardback book published by Longmans Green and Company in 1895. The date at the bottom of the title page is 1895, the year of first American publication, the copyright page doesn't list any additional printings. Published the next year in the UK, so this is the true first. The table of illustrations lists full page thirteen illustrations for this book, all are present.
Synopsis: Somewhere in Central America exists a forgotten Mayan citadel, filled with gold and jewels-and its living inhabitants. An English adventurer can't resist the lure of lost treasure any more than the wiles of a beautiful princess in this thumping good 1895 tale.
Condition Binding - good, quite a bit of spine lean, cloth a bit worn at the edges, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, lower rear corner slightly bumped, page edges age darkened and a little soiled, pages lightly tanned, binding is intact with no loose pages, a better than average reading copy of the first US edition. Dust jacket - none.
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