King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard Edited with an Introduction and Notes By Dennis Butts
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- Paperback
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- Near Fine (NEAR NEW)/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0192834851
- ISBN 13
- 9780192834850
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. Crease to Front Cover.....NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STANDARD RATES!......Please email for further details. Not Inscribed or Signed. Reissue 1998. Glossy Pictorial Card. Near Fine (NEAR NEW)/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Paperback..
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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- Title
- King Solomon's Mines
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard Edited with an Introduction and Notes By Dennis Butts
- Illustrator
- Not Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reissue 1998
- ISBN 10
- 0192834851
- ISBN 13
- 9780192834850
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- FICTION CLASSICS LITERARY CRITICISM
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
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