Doctor Therne

by Henry Rider Haggard, Sir

£75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. Medical Dystopia FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp. 2 x; 253 3 . Publisher's light tan cloth with titles in gilt to spine and brown to upper, with patterned endpapers. Textblock shaken. Very light occasional spotting. Edges toned. Light wear to cloth; spine toned. Very good. A novel exploring the potentially tragic consequences of the Anti-Vaccination movement. Described by Haggard himself as ... my only novel

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