• Publication: Black Heart and White Heart, and Other StoriesPublication Record # 264715
• Author: H. Rider Haggard
• Date: 1900-00-00
• Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: xii+414
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: This is the source for Project Gutenberg Ebooks #2842, 2855, and #2893; one for each story with the Dedication and Author's Note replicated. HathiTrust Digital Library (record 007123124) provides full view of 3 copies, probably none with the original cover. -- "Illustrations", p[xi]-xii, lists 33 (frontispiece plus 32 plates not included in the pagination); or 6, 8, and 19 by story The illustrations are not credited, but some are clearly signed "Charles Kerr" (plate facing page 1. Kerr, Townsend, and Kerr illustrated the original, serial publications of the three stories, and it must be expected contains reproductions of the same illustrations. See the fiction and interior art records for more information, including the identification of Elissa illustrator Townsend whose signature "F. H. ..." is illegible.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001561572
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 122641049 3466677
  • Reginald-1: 06529

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• viii • Author's Note (Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories) • essay by H. Rider Haggard
• 1 • Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll • (1896) • novella by H. Rider Haggard (variant of Black Heart and White Heart)
•  Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll • (1896) • interior artwork by Charles Kerr
• 67 • Elissa: or, The Doom of Zimbabwe • novel by H. Rider Haggard
•  Elissa: or, The Doom of Zimbabwe • (1898) • interior artwork by F. H. Townsend
• 233 • The Wizard • (1896) • novel by H. Rider Haggard
•  The Wizard • (1896) • interior artwork by Charles Kerr