King Solomon's Mines

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UK: Empire Library, 1925. Popular Edition Reprint (UK). Larger 12mo with orangey brown cloth boards and black stamping; 298 pages In very good condition with clean pages and sturdy binding; mild fraying to head and foot of spine and superficial worming to front edge of spine; bumping to corners; Fresno bookshop sticker to front pastedown. Hardcover."King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre" --Wikipedia. / Fantasy Classics; Africa Show more