A.C. Doyle's 1st Professor Challenger story

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Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
Title: The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor George E. Challenger...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Hodder and Stoughton
Date Published: [1912]
Description:

319 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 8 plates. (8vo) original blue cloth, cover lettered and ruled in white, with a gilt portrait of Professor Challenger, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

The first Professor Challenger story, in which the scientist and his exploring party locate a remnant of the prehistoric world on a plateau in South America. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper.
Condition Report: Light rubbing to cloth, some vertical creasing on spine, some fading to lettering and rule; faintly toned textblock; very good or better.