HAGGARD, H. Rider.

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King Solomon's Mines. First edition of the author's best-known book. This copy has the three requisite textual misprints for first state. It is bound without the advertisements, which are also a point of issue.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.

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