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A Tale of Three Lions

H. Rider Haggard

First published 1887
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Allan Quatermain #4


First published October to December 1887 as a 3-part serial in the UK magazine Atalanta. Published December 1887 in the US monthly Wide Awake: An Illustrated Magazine for Young People, 26.1 pp. 69-84, with two full-page illustrations, uncredited and unsigned (viewed at HathiTrust). --The FictionMags Index (philsp.com/homeville/fmi)

The Atalanta serial contains 4 full-page illustrations and a decorative heading by Heywood Hardy. --VisualHaggard.org (above)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1887 A Tale of Three Lions John W. Lovell Chapbook
1889 Cover Allan's Wife and Other Tales Spencer Blackett Collection 257
1898 Allan the Hunter: A Tale of Three Lions Lothrop Publishing Co. Chapbook
1927 Allan's Wife and Other Tales Longmans, Green and Co. Collection
1951 Cover Allan's Wife and Other Tales Macdonald Collection
October 1980 Cover Allan's Wife Newcastle Publishing Collection 185
October 1985 Cover La nuit des pharaons Néo Collection 63
1996 Cover The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 51
2002 Cover Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others Wildside Press Collection 41
August 2003 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Peter Owen Collection 69
January 2004 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Dufour Editions Collection 69
December 2007 Cover A Tale of Three Lions LibriVox Chapbook
January 2014 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Peter Owen Collection
February 2014 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Peter Owen Collection
April 2016 Cover Ultimate Collection e-artnow Omnibus |4