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Book Condition: Very Good: A firm copy. Slight lean. Bright gilt. Front free endpaper almost detached. Open tear to top of Dedication page - the piece attached to opposite page - the two pages not cleanly topcut. Last page and advert leaf still uncut. No markings. Two chromolithographic plates precede the title page. Original dark blue cloth, decorative gilt to spine and cover. 317pp + (2) adverts. Basis for several films. First printing with "Godness me" error on page 269.

This novel follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in Africa, where they encounter Ayesha, or 'She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed', an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful woman who has waited 2000 years for the rebirth of her lover.