Property from the Workman Collection
Haggard, Sir Henry RiderKing Solomon's Mines. London, Paris, and New York, & Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1885
8vo. Half-title, folding lithographed chart as frontispiece, 16pp. advertisements at the end (dated 5G.8.85 and 5B.8.85). Original red cloth, lettered and pictorially printed in black and gilt. Housed in custom red morocco clamshell case.
First edition, first issue.
"Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth."
Considered genesis of the lost world literary genre, King Solomon's Mines is now regarded as Haggard's masterpiece.
A superb copy, very rare in this condition.
REFERENCE:Sadleir 1089; Wolff 2863
Property from the Workman Collection
Haggard, Sir Henry RiderKing Solomon's Mines. London, Paris, and New York, & Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1885
8vo. Half-title, folding lithographed chart as frontispiece, 16pp. advertisements at the end (dated 5G.8.85 and 5B.8.85). Original red cloth, lettered and pictorially printed in black and gilt. Housed in custom red morocco clamshell case.
First edition, first issue.
"Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth."
Considered genesis of the lost world literary genre, King Solomon's Mines is now regarded as Haggard's masterpiece.
A superb copy, very rare in this condition.
REFERENCE:Sadleir 1089; Wolff 2863
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