King Solomon's Mines (The World's Classics)
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0192822047
- ISBN 13
- 9780192822048
- Seller
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Hopkins, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good. 1992 Reprint. Trade paperback bound in original wrappers. Unmarked. Binding is good with no creases to the spine. This book has minor reading wear otherwise fine. xxvii + 337 pp.
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
- Walther's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006799
- Title
- King Solomon's Mines (The World's Classics)
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192822047
- ISBN 13
- 9780192822048
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- ENGLISH_LITERATURE AFRICA_FICTION BRITISH_LITERATURE
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Fine
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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- Fiction & Literature Action & Adventure
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