1st edition.~ Cloth, VG+. xvi+336pp+16pp publishers adverts, b/w frontis, 28 b/w plates, errata slip tipped in, publishers adds dated August 1889 (so this is a !st edition 2nd issue copy) head of spine a little frayed. ~ Two bookplates on pastedown. A classic Haggard tale.

1st edition, 2nd state.~ Cloth, G. 320pp+16pp publishers adverts, folding colour frontis, a poor copy of the second issue of one of the seminal novels of the Victorian era. Hinges weak front & rear, large repaired tear to the map, spine wrinkled & bubbled as if from having been wet at some time, sporadic foxing. An early issue of the first edition - Title page dated 1885, adverts at rear dated 5.G10.8 and 5B.10.85. The typographical errors are all corrected. ~ Immensely popular tale of African Adventure which was written by Haggard as a bet with his brother. The book was the first work of fiction set in Africa & one of the earliest 'Lost World' adventures, spawning a whole sub genre of adventure literature.

180 x 125 mm Antal sidor: 154.

185 x 125 mm Antal sidor: 256. Äventyrsroman.

200 x 130 mm Antal sidor: 576. En berättelse om Jerusalems förstörelse.

0812583566 edge wear, light cover crease in lower left corner; In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.

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