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Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Colour folded leag torn. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 320 pp., [1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character). Diamond mines and mining ; Fiction. Missing persons. Treasure troves. Africa. 1 Kg.

King Solomon's Mines is a novel by the English writer H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1885. 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.