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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1887. First edition, first issue. With portrait frontispiece and 19 wood engravings. 8vo, elegantly hand-bound in half burgundy oasis morocco with raised bands to the spine, titled in gilt, cloth sides, black endpapers, with publisher's cloth covers bound in at the rear. A fine copy, both binding and text-block in excellent condition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Allan Quatermain was Haggard’s most popular hero, best known as the protagonist in KING SOLOMON’S MINES. Many believe Quatermain to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones. The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. An outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable, he prefers to spend most of his life in Africa, where he grew up under the care of his widower father, a Christian missionary. In the earliest-written novels, native Africans refer to Quatermain as Macumazahn, meaning…

In this sequel to 'King Solomon's Mines', Quatermain seeks a lost white race in the heart of Africa and discovers a land full of surprising truths.