King Solomon's Mines.

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First edition of the author's best-known book, attractively bound and in the scarce first state, with the requisite textual misprints and advertisements dated "5G.8.85" and "5B.8.85". King Solomon's Mines was published in September 1885 and was an instant success. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883), Haggard's adventure novel directly influenced several works, including Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888), Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), and James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933), as well as novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, and H. G. Wells. Haggard (1856-1925), an English barrister, ostrich farmer, and travel writer, moved to Natal at the age of 19. His first publication addressed the political turmoil in South Africa. Inspired by the mysterious and uncharted regions of the African continent, he wrote King Solomon's Mines, which established him as a pioneer of adventure fiction. Octavo. Colour fold-out map frontispiece, publisher's 16-page catalogue at end. Mid-20th-century red calf by Frost & Co., Bath, red and green spine labels, compartments decorated in gilt, twin gilt fillet ruling covers, gilt roll to board edges, floral gilt roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth spine and covers bound in at end. Ownership inscription of Brent Gration-Maxfield in blue ink on front free endpaper verso. Hint of sunning to spine, gilt bright, small scuff to front cover, joints and corners lightly rubbed, short splits to front inner hinge, foxing to contents, long repaired closed tear across folding frontispiece, marginal paper restoration to pp. 271/2. A very good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 184041

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