A scarce 1949 edition of this classic novel of exploration of deepest Africa.

This is a used hardcover book in good condition: dust jacket looks great, some minor marks, price clipped, foxing on end pages, boards are good, aged. Some bookseller pencil marks on first page otherwise there are no torn, stained, marked, dog-eared or missing pages. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy! 

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Publisher's blurb: The first novel in a series about Ayesha, or She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, an immortal queen who lives in, and rules, the lost city of Kor. When two explorers, Professor Holly and his companion, Leo Vincey, stumble onto the city, Ayesha suspects that Vincey is the reincarnation of her long long love and tries to grant him immortality.

From Wikipedia: She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages, one of the best-selling books of all time. She was extraordinarily popular upon its release and has never been out of print since it was first published. According to literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, "She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard". The story is a first person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns in terror as "She" or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many later authors emulated.[1] She is placed firmly in the imperialist literature of nineteenth-century England, and bound up with Rider Haggard's own experiences in South Africa and British colonialism. The story also expounds a number of racial and evolutionary preconceptions of the late-Victorians, especially notions of degeneration and racial decline prominent during the fin de siècle. In the figure of She, the narrative came to famously explore themes of female authority and feminine behaviour and has received praise and criticism alike for its gendered representation of womanhood.