Books

"King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard. New York: Cassell & Company, 1885 first American edition first issue. Book in good condition, with folding frontispiece, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, some staining to head of upper cover. The scarce American edition, issued in 500 copies using the sheets of the London first issue.

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.