HAGGARD, H. RIDER. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell 1885. 8vo, original pictorial red cloth, spine a bit askew, covers slightly soiled, extremities lightly rubbed, cracked endpapers at inner hinges repaired. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE, "perhaps the quintessential adventure novel published in the English language" (L.W. Currey), color folding map as frontispiece (with 4-inch tear, but nothing missing); with misprints: "Bamamgwato," p. 10, line 14, a double "to," p. 122, third line up, and "wrod," p. 307, last line; 14-pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear dated "5G.8.85" (on first page) and "5B.8.85" (on ninth page). Scott 4; Sadleir 1089; Wolff 2863; Bleiler (1978), p. 90. The first printing consisted of 2000 copies; half of these were bound in September 1885 (comprising the first issue, as indicated by the advertisements dated as above); 500 copies were bound in October (the second issue) and 500 were bound in New York in November (the American issue). The work was reprinted three times in 1885: in October, November, and December. Rare.