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"Black Heart and White Heart" is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.
--Author's Note, 1900, UK (<a href="/story/1142192/">see</a>)
First published in January 1896: • African Review, UK monthly magazine • as a 4-part serial, Sundays 1890-01-05 to -01-26, US newspapers One automated search finds the serial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta Constitution, Nashville Tennessean, and San Francisco Chronicle. The first three use subtitle "A Zulu Idyll" (or Idyl), credit H. Rider Haggard, and contain uncredited illustrations by {{a|Dan Beard}} (probably, from the signature). SF Chronicle uses no subtitle, credits Rider Haggard, and contains uncredited illustrations by "Newberry" (clearly signed).
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories | Longmans, Green and Co. | Collection | 1 | |
| 1900 |
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Elissa: The Doom of Zimbabwe / Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll | Longmans, Green and Co. | Collection | |2 |
| 1900 | Black Heart and White Heart; and Elissa | Tauchnitz | Collection | 9 | |
| 1903 | Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories | Longmans, Green and Co. | Collection | 1 | |
| 1907 | The Wizard and Black Heart and White Heart | George Newnes | Collection | ||
| 1924 | Black Heart and White Heart and the Wizard | Hodder & Stoughton | Collection | ||
| 1981 |
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The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard | Michael Joseph | Collection | 68 |
| December 1982 |
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century | Beaufort Books | Anthology | 301 |
| 1983 |
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Fantasy-Erzählungen des 19. Jahrhunderts | Heyne | Anthology | 409 |
| April 1984 |
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Witches | Signet / New American Library | Anthology | 303 |
| August 1984 |
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13 Short Fantasy Novels | Greenwich House / Crown Publishers | Anthology | 139 |
| October 1985 |
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La nuit des pharaons | Néo | Collection | 113 |
| 1986 |
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The Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels | Robinson | Anthology | 139 |
| June 1986 | The Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels | Robinson | Anthology | 139 | |
| February 1992 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century | Knightsbridge | Anthology | |14 | |
| 2002 |
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Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others | Wildside Press | Collection | 130 |
| August 2003 |
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Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy | Del Rey / Ballantine | Anthology | 133 |
| September 2003 |
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Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy | Del Rey / Ballantine | Anthology | 133 |
| November 2005 |
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Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy | Del Rey / Ballantine | Anthology | 167 |
| March 2006 | Black Heart and White Heart | Project Gutenberg | Chapbook | ||
| January 2011 |
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Black Heart and White Heart: | LibriVox | Chapbook | |
| 2023 |
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African Horrors | Sam Teddy Publishing | Anthology | 65 |