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HAGGARD, H. RIDER. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell & Company 1886, 1886.
Price: US$24.45 + shipping
Description: EARLY EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt & black lettering with black illus to spine, black lettering & illus to boards, folding illus/frontispiece, 320pp, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate soiling to boards, spine cocked, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's names in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to gutters, light to moderate soiling to eps, occasional light foxing to pages throughout, moderate foxing to frontispiece & prelims, closed tearing & archival tape repairs to frontis)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
H. Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with no DJ. Green cloth boards with black embossed lettering on front board, gold lettering on spine. Title page dated 1886. No evident copyright page. 320 pages. Light rubbing to front and rear boards. Gold lettering on spine is still shiny and legible. Embossed illustration of a spear and shield on front board. Minor shelf wear at top and bottom edges of spine as well as at corners and edges of boards. Shelf cocked. Binding at gutter along front end pages is torn, boards and pages remained attached but binding is exposed. Frontispiece is a map of the route to King Solomon's Mines from the year 1590. Map has a 3 1/2 inch closed tear from its center towards its right edge. 2 signatures have come loose from the binding but are still included. Pages are otherwise tidy with text clean and legible. Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Haggard, H Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell, London, 1886.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 28th thousand early reprint, one year after the first edition. Contains the fold-out map frontis as call for although this is torn. Publishers red cloth, titled gilt on spine & decorated & titled in black on upper & rear boards and spine. One gather of pages a little loose & damp stains to front board and spine. Spine a little sunned & worn on edges
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Haggard, H. Rider.. King Solomon's Mines.. London: Cassell., 1886.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Later printing. 8vo. 320 pp. Good in red pictorial cloth, cover soiled, spine darkened and ends worn, map frontis. missing, front hinge weak. Provenance: John Ruyle.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
HAGGARD, H. Rider. King Solomon's mines. Cassell, London, 1886.
Price: US$68.59 + shipping
Description: An early reprint, dated 1886, with 16pp publisher's advertisements (code 5g.1.86) at rear & printer's code 20.286; gift inscription onhalf-title page dated April /86. Lacks front free end paper; hinges cracked & repaired; folding frontis torn, with small loss & cellotape repair; spine faded & bumped, with dull gilt title; minor loss of colour on boards. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell and Company, Limited., London, 1886.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Description: A scarce thirty-first thousand edition of H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel. The thirty-first thousand edition of this work. First published in 1885.The first edition with the correction of the 'eclipse of the sun' to the 'eclipse of the moon'.With printer's code 30.986 to base of page 320.At the rear of the work is four pages of publisher's advertisements and sixteen pages listing Cassell & Company's other published works with codes 5 G 9.86 and 5 B 9.86.Illustrated map on page 27, but sadly missing fold-out colour map frontispiece.King Solomon's Mines is a thrilling adventure novel that tells the story of an expedition through an untrodden region of Africa. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was a British writer specialising in romantic adventure novels often set in exotic settings, predominantly Africa, and is considered the father of the 'lost world' literary genre. This work, in particular, is considered one of the earliest examples of the genre. In the publisher's original cloth binding with decorative details. Externally, lightly worn. Rear joint is cracked, boards held by cords only and may detach with further handling. Scattered damp stains to boards. Minor shelf wear and toning to boards' extremities. Toning and light chipping to spine. Front free end paper missing, along with half title page and colour frontispiece. Internally, binding loosening in places. Slightly cocked. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell & Company Ltd.,, London, 1886.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: KING SOLOMON'S MINES. H. Rider Haggard. Cassell & Company Ltd., London 1886 Reprint. 320pp plus folding map Fine Binding. This early edition has at some time been rebound in a poor half rexine binding to marbled paper covered boards. There are some rubs and bumping to the extremities, there is flaking and loss to the spine. However the contents are bright and tight and unmarked, this would make a splendid candidate for a quality rebinding. 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 adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. The book was first published in September 1885 amid considerable fanfare, with billboards and posters around London announcing "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written". It became an immediate best seller. By the late 19th century, explorers were uncovering ancient civilisations around the world, such as Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and the empire of Assyria. Inner Africa remained largely unexplored and King Solomon's Mines, the first novel of African adventure published in English, captured the public's imagination. Haggard wrote the novel as a result of a five-shilling wager with his brother, namely whether he could write a novel half as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). He wrote it in a short time, somewhere between six and sixteen weeks between January and 21 April 1885. However, because the book was a complete novelty, it was rejected by one publisher after another. When, after six months, King Solomon's Mines finally was published, the book became the year's best seller; the only problem (much to the chagrin of those who had rejected the manuscript) was how to print copies fast enough. Ref Z4 Size: 320pp Plus Folding Map
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
HAGGARD H Rider.. KING SOLOMON'S MINES.. (18th thousand). Cassell & Co - London., 1886.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Description: Hardback. An early reprint. Colourful folding plan / map & corrections as called for. Red cloth, black shield & spear design & titles on upper board. Spine titled in gilt with design & authors name in black. Generally VG but spine sunned - still legible - and small tear on folding map / plan. An uncommon early edition.
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
H Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell, 1886.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th edition, half title, title page dated 1886, folding map which has torn along the fold, vi, 320pp, 2pp advert for Treasure Island, 12pp list of books published by Cassell, some marks to front free endpaper, rear endpapers lightly tanned, occasional spotting internally, original red cloth, black printed title and decoration of spears and shields, spine a little faded, some marks and faded patches on boards. Publication details: at bottom of p320 publisher's name and address and ref number 20.286, at bottom of the first page of the publisher catalogue 5 G I.86 and at the bottom of the ninth page of the catalogue 5 B I.86. 7.5 x 5 Inches.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell & Company, London, 1886.
Price: US$125.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The thirty-first thousand of H. Rider Haggard's beloved adventure novel, often considered to be the work that pioneered the 'lost world' literary genre. The thirty-first thousand of this work, published the year following the first edition. This was the first printing in which Haggard's scientifically inaccurate description in which the eclipse of the sun is described as taking place during a full moon is corrected.With the printer's code '30.986' to the tail of page 320, and with the publisher's advertisements dated '5.G.9.86' and '5.B.9.86'.Illustrated with a colour folding map frontispiece, and with a vignette map illustration to page 27. Collated, complete.With the inscription of former owner 'Archibald Grant' to the head of first leaf of chapter I.Detailing the adventures of a group of explorers in Africa, led by professional big game hunter Allan Quatermain, this work is considered to be the origins of the lost world literary genre.Haggard's novel follows an expedition through an untrodden region of Africa, and was one of the first adventure novel to be set on the continent. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Discolouration to back strip and board perimeters, with mark to head of front board. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, binding lightly strained. Significant closed tear to frontispiece. Inscription to head of first leaf of chapter I. Pages bright and generally clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
HAGGARD, H. RIDER. KING SOLOMON'S MINES. LONDON: CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, 1886.
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, pp, 320, coloured folding map frontispiece which is slightly foxed and has been neatly repaired, gilt titled red cloth with black titling and decoration, the spine is dull and a bit rubbed at the head and tail, publisher's catalogue to rear. An early edition of the book first published in 1885 [1,500 copies]
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
HAGGARD, [Sir] Henry Rider (1856-1925). King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell & Company, 1886, 1886.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION, the seventh impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 320 [14]. With the folding colour map frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in black, with titles in gilt to spine and black to upper, and light yellow-coated endpapers. Catalogue dated 5G.1.86, final text leaf (p.320) is coded 20.286. Black ink ownership to half-title, and a minor repair to map with archival tape. Light toning and occasional spotting throughout. Re-cased with splits to hinges and a lean. Moderate general wear to cloth, with some toning to spine. Good. The first of the famous Allan Quatermain tales, inspired by the huge success of Stevenson's 'Treasure Island' (1883). Following a map drawn 300 years ago by a dying man, three adventurers set out in search of the legendary riches of King Solomon's diamond mines. On their journey they have to cross deserts, mountains and inhabitants that kill strangers. Will they make the journey and become the richest men on Earth? First published in 1885. Whatmore, 'H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography' (London 1987), F3.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Possible 1st edition. Cassell's "RAINBOW" Series of Original Novels. Undated early American soft cover. Tan wraps decorated and lettered in black; measures approximately 7" X 5". Unrecorded in bibliographies. Listed as "Now Ready"in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 1886; previously advertised in Christian Union on April 29, 1886, probably as forthcoming. [Source: C.W. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks and Paperbacks, 1849-1905, per research completed by Haggard expert Al Tella. Also, ads at rear for titles published in 1885. New York: Cassell and Company (1886), 320 pages + catalog pages at rear. This Fair copy has tape along spine in order to reattach the back cover, cover partially detached. Darkened wraps are brittle in part, brown pages with a some brittleness especially to first and last few pages.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US printed hardcover edition [Cassell's American hardcover has sheets published in the UK]. Decorative red cloth stamped in black, greenish end papers. This is the Fireside #17 wraps version, released in cloth as part of the Home Series. Dated December 22, 1886 on the title page but is probably from later 1887/88. The fold out map is now printed as the frontispiece, and the other map is on page 23. The publisher's catalog at rear lists Allen Quartermain [misspelled] which was not published until 1887. Whatmore page 168. New York: J. S. Ogilvie & Company (1886), 188 pages + 6 page catalog. VG. A well preserved copy with pushed spine ends, sear, modest soil. Inked price on f.f.e., Cheap paper has browned, getting brittle at very edge, 1 tiny chip. Frontispiece partly separated from binding.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
H Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell, UK, 1886.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: Early Reprint 34th Thousand 1886. Includes fold out treasure map. Quite a bright example. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Cloth lightly soiled. Nice clean contents. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17124
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
H. Rider Haggard. King Solomon's Mines. Cassell and Company, London, 1886.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thirty First Thousand edition - the first edition with the correction of the eclipse of the sun to the eclipse of the moon. Publisher's original red cloth, gilt and black stamped spine, front and back covers stamped in black, pale yellow end papers. Color fold out map as frontispiece, additional map on page 27. With printer's code 30.986 at base of page 320. Four pages of publisher's ads followed by 16 page catalog at rear with codes 5 G 9.86 and 5 B 9.86. Scott 4 : Whatmore F3 7a. London: Cassell and Company (1886), 320 pages. This VG copy with forward lean, age darkening and wear to cloth. Bookstore sticker on front paste down, bookseller pencils on f.f.e, and ink signed name dated December 9th 1886 on verso of f.f.e., Off white pages and fold out map is not torn.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$655.73 + shipping
Description: Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Colour folded leag torn. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 320 pp., [1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character). Diamond mines and mining ; Fiction. Missing persons. Treasure troves. Africa. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$724.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Colour folded leag torn. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 320 pp., [1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character). Diamond mines and mining ; Fiction. Missing persons. Treasure troves. Africa. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.