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Early reprint ("Sixty-third Thousand). Signed and inscribed by H. Rider Haggard on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth decorated in black and gilt. Very Good. Repair to head of spine and inner hinges. Cloth at spine darkened with stamping rubbed. Corners softened. Foxing to endsheets, pages toned. Map intact, with small tear and several small spots. One of the prolific author's best-known works.

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.