King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard, Illustrated by Paget, Walter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Mullin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
NY: Reader's Digest, 1994 Cloth. As New/No Jacket. Reader's Digest First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This book is in excellent condition. It has library binding with gold letters and decorations. It is green with black spine..
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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- Bookseller
- Brenda's Bookshelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000178
- Title
- King Solomon's Mines
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard, Illustrated by Paget, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Reader's Digest, 1994
- Keywords
- PAGET, WALTER READER'S DIGEST BOOKS
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- Library Binding
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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