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King Solomon's Mines (The World's Best Reading)
by H. Rider Haggard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0895775530
- ISBN 13
- 9780895775535
- Seller
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Full leather Hardcover 224 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1994. Attractive illustrated full leather green boards with 1/4 black spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in four page brochure.
International adult best seller of the year 1890 and still a thumping good read. This is the book that invented the "African Adventure" novel.
Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts and encounter the merciless King Twala en route to a legendary hoard of diamonds.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire.
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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- Seller
- River House Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656864
- Title
- King Solomon's Mines (The World's Best Reading)
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0895775530
- ISBN 13
- 9780895775535
- Publisher
- The Reader's Digest Association, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville, Ny
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 224
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel;
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About River House Books
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I ship domestically in the US using the Post Office and internationally using consolidation services. Books are always wrapped then packed in cardboard boxes with padding to protect the contents. International shipments are double boxed with shipping paperwork attached to the outside of the box using a special envelope. And a complete duplicate of all the paperwork packed inside the outer box in case the attached set wanders off.
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