RARE Fred Whishaw WHITE WITCH OF THE MATABELE 1897 1st Ed Africa Rhodesia
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About this Item:Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, 1897. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.
According to Copac, this first edition was published in 1897, though no date is found within the book. This copy is in outstanding condition considering extreme rarity of this book. Some foxing/age spotting throughout text. All edges gilt (aeg). All illustrations by A.W. Cooper present. Frontispiece protected by onion skin/tissue paper.
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This is a rare book, for also according to Copac, only 4 libraries in the UK possess a copy, and only 1 library in Canada, and 1 library in the USA, for a total of 6 copies.
Frederick James Whishaw (14 March 1854 8 July 1934) was a Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. A popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the 20th century, he published over forty volumes of his work between 1884 and 1914. He was a prolific historical novelist, many of his books being set in Czarist Russia, and his "schoolboy" and adventure serials appeared in many boys' magazines of the era. Several of these were published as full length novels, such as Gubbins Minor and Some Other Fellows (1897), The Boys of Brierley Grange (1906) and The Competitors: A Tale of Upton House School (1906). Other stories, such as The White Witch of the Matabele (1897) or The Three Scouts: A Story of the Boer War (1900), depicted colonial Africa. Whishaw was also one of the first translators of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the first in the English language. He had several of the Russian author's novels published between 1886 and 1888.
According to Copac, this first edition was published in 1897, though no date is found within the book. This copy is in outstanding condition considering extreme rarity of this book. Some foxing/age spotting throughout text. All edges gilt (aeg). All illustrations by A.W. Cooper present. Frontispiece protected by onion skin/tissue paper.
Se...e photos please.
This is a rare book, for also according to Copac, only 4 libraries in the UK possess a copy, and only 1 library in Canada, and 1 library in the USA, for a total of 6 copies.
Frederick James Whishaw (14 March 1854 8 July 1934) was a Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. A popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the 20th century, he published over forty volumes of his work between 1884 and 1914. He was a prolific historical novelist, many of his books being set in Czarist Russia, and his "schoolboy" and adventure serials appeared in many boys' magazines of the era. Several of these were published as full length novels, such as Gubbins Minor and Some Other Fellows (1897), The Boys of Brierley Grange (1906) and The Competitors: A Tale of Upton House School (1906). Other stories, such as The White Witch of the Matabele (1897) or The Three Scouts: A Story of the Boer War (1900), depicted colonial Africa. Whishaw was also one of the first translators of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the first in the English language. He had several of the Russian author's novels published between 1886 and 1888.
