King Solomon's Mines
by H Rider Haggard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Camden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, 1887. no edition stated. hardcover. Good+. 12mo, marbled boards with red cloth spine and corners, front endpaper torn out, owner's names on front pastedown, small clipping glued to free endpaper, a novel, 274 pages" .
Synopsis
King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7230
- Title
- King Solomon's Mines
- Author
- H Rider Haggard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- no edition stated
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1887
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2004
Camden, Maine
About Stone Soup Books
Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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