Alone and desolate, within hearing of the thunder of the waters of the North Sea, but not upon them, stand the ruins of Ramborough Abbey. Once there was a city at their feet, now the city has gone; nothing is left of its greatness save the stone skeleton of the fabric of the Abbey above and the skeletons of the men who built it mouldering in the earth below. To the east, across a waste of uncultivated heath, lies the wide ocean; and, following the trend of the coast northward, the eye falls upon the red roofs of the fishing ...
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Alone and desolate, within hearing of the thunder of the waters of the North Sea, but not upon them, stand the ruins of Ramborough Abbey. Once there was a city at their feet, now the city has gone; nothing is left of its greatness save the stone skeleton of the fabric of the Abbey above and the skeletons of the men who built it mouldering in the earth below. To the east, across a waste of uncultivated heath, lies the wide ocean; and, following the trend of the coast northward, the eye falls upon the red roofs of the fishing village of Bradmouth. When Ramborough was a town, this village was a great port; but the sea, advancing remorselessly, has choked its harbour and swallowed up the ancient borough which to-day lies beneath the waters. With that of Ramborough the glory of Bradmouth is departed, and of its priory and churches there remains but one lovely and dilapidated fane, the largest perhaps in the east of England-that of Yarmouth alone excepted-and, as many think, the most beautiful. At the back of Bradmouth church, which, standing upon a knoll at some distance from the cliff, has escaped the fate of the city that once nestled beneath it, stretch rich marsh meadows, ribbed with raised lines of roadway. But these do not make up all the landscape, for between Bradmouth and the ruins of Ramborough, following the indentations of the sea coast and set back in a fold or depression of the ground, lie a chain of small and melancholy meres, whose brackish waters, devoid of sparkle even on the brightest day, are surrounded by coarse and worthless grass land, the haunt of the shore-shooter, and a favourite feeding-place of curlews, gulls, coots and other wild-fowl. Beyond these meres the ground rises rapidly, and is clothed in gorse and bracken, interspersed with patches of heather, till it culminates in the crest of a bank that marks doubtless the boundary of some primeval fiord or lake, where, standing in a ragged line, are groups of wind-torn Scotch fir trees, surrounding a grey and solitary house known as Moor Farm. The dwellers in these parts-that is, those of them who are alive to such matters-think that there are few more beautiful spots than this slope of barren land pitted with sullen meres and bordered by the sea. Indeed, it has attractions in every season: even in winter, when the snow lies in drifts upon the dead fern, and the frost-browned gorse shivers in the east wind leaping on it from the ocean. It is always beautiful, and yet there is truth in the old doggerel verse that is written in a quaint Elizabethan hand upon the fly-lead of one of the Bradmouth parish registers- "Of Rambro', north and west and south, Man's eyes can never see enough; Yet winter's gloom or summer's light, Wide England hath no sadder sight.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback. Illustrations by F.S. Wilson. Longmans Silver Library. Very light wear and a little foxing. A nice copy. With 20 B&W illustrations.
Add this copy of Joan Haste to cart. $18.77, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1895 by Longmans, Green.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in dark blue/black cloth with gilt. Illus by F.S. Wilson. Large faded patch on front board (? where label removed); trace of label on front pastedown; spine bumped; a little light foxing; tissue guard to frontis foxed.
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Add this copy of Joan Haste to cart. $33.01, good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1895 by Longmans, Green and Co.
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None. Good. A first edition of this novel by H Rider Haggard. With 20 plates. Joan Haste is a Victorian melodrama centring on the theme of the fallen woman and social justice. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some rubbing and dampstaining. Label to front board. Book is slightly cocked. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages generally bright with some mild age toning, spotting and handling marks. Good.
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F. S. Wilson. Good. An early novel by popular fantasy and adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. Second edition. Illustrated throughout by F. S. Wilson. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, sound though with some bumping and a few marks. Internally, generally firmly bound. Hinges are strained. Pages are bright, but with some instances of foxing throughout (heavier to first and last few pages). Good.
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1895
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With 20 illustrations by F.S. Wilson. x, 425pp Longmans, Green & Co., London 1895. Ownership name on end-paper, foreedge v. sl. foxed, otherwise a very good copy in the original black bevelled boards.
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F. S. Wilson. Very Good. The first edition of this doomed Victorian romance by H. Rider Haggard, illustrated with plates by F. S. Wilson. The first edition of this work. A Victorian romance primarily set in London, revolving around a love affair hampered by differences in social class. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates. Collated, complete. Written by H. Rider Haggard, an adventure novelist known for pioneering the lost world genre. He wrote on the lighter end of Victorian literature, also being involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. Illustrated by F. S. Wilson. Twenty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with a small crack to the head of the front joint. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd spots. Very Good.
