"King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard - Cassell, London - 1886 first UK edition, thirty-fourth thousand - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, original publisher's binding, some rubbing to boards, binding leaning, original fold-out plate present with a tear, complete. King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel[1] by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre. It is the first of fourteen novels and four short stories by Haggard about Allan Quatermain. Haggard dedicated this book to his childhood idol Sir Humphry Davy.