H Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines, Cassell & Company, 1905
H Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines, Cassell & Company, 1905
Revised edition with 32 Illustrations by Russell Flint. Written on a famous five-shilling bet that he could write a book better than Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Haggard drew heavily on his personal experiences in South Africa to create the iconic hunter-hero Allan Quatermain.
Pictorial cloth in fine condition. Bumped spine ends. Corners bumped. School presentation plate to fly leaf. Foxing to page edges. A tear across the map. Stains to rear cloth.
Weight 530g. Pages 306.