The Lady of the Heavens

Overview:

  • Title: The Lady of the Heavens
  • Author: H. Rider Haggard
  • Year: 1909
  • Publisher: F. F. Lovell
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: viii+342
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Lady of the Heavens
  • Notes:
    • US trade edition The 1st ed. (see) was published in special "editions" for exclusive sale by one merchant in each city.
    • Publication date (inferred) and price from the earliest listings found in 1908/1909 newspapers: "List of Publications", Cincinnati Enquirer 1909-04-26 p7, and "New Books Published", Hartford Courant -04-28 p8. The book is reviewed in Cin. Enq. one week later, -05-03 p7, and reviewed elsewhere that week.
    • WorldCat record OCLC 3331800 shows 1908 as the publication year; not true. OCLC 31576716, concerning a 1992 microfilm copy, correctly reports (c)1908.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (as 1908) provides full view of one copy with original cover: -- title page: "New York // Frank F. Lovell Company // Publishers" (no date) -- t.p. verso: Haggard's 1908 copyright -- Contents, p[v]-vi -- p[vii]-viii (quote heading and first line):   Extract: From Letter Headed "The King's Kraal, Zululand, 12th May, 1855."   "The Zulus about here have a strange story of a white girl ..."   (no closing) -- narrative, p[1]-342 -- (no other front or back pages)