King Solomon’s mines

A$100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

London, Paris, New York and Melbourne : Cassell Company, Limited, 1898. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher s buff-coloured wrappers with titles and illustration in blue to upper wrapper, lower wrapper with publisher s advertisement (wrappers with light staining and foxing, some paper loss at foot of spine); pp. 128, with five in-text illustrations by Walter Paget; printed on cheap paper which has toned, scattered foxing, but mostly confined to the first half of the text, otherwise internally good. A scarce example of Cassell s sixpenny edition of Rider Haggard s classic adventure story, the first of the Allan Quartermain novels.

• Binding: Hardcover

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