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London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. [5]-vi, [1], 8-320pp, [16]. Rebound in full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, author label to fourth, single line border to covers, triple line to inner edges, a.e.g. with marbled endpapers. Externally bright and clean. Text with a hint of browning, very occasional light spotting, but generally quite bright and clean. Closed tear to map frontispiece, with small tear to central fold, browned to reverse. The first edition, with the textual misprints and the correctly dated advertisements to rear. Sadleir 1089; Wolff 2863; Bleiler, page 137; Allen 31; Scott 4. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 8vo.

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.

Look for the publisher Cassell & Company, published in 1885 with the listing of 'The New and Popular Novels, at all the Libraries' in the advertisements in the back, as well as no mention of other works by Haggard.