Conan Doyle's the Lost World large paper
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Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Title: The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the "Daily Gazette"
Place Published: London
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran Co.
Date Published: [c. 1914]
Description:
x, 11-319 pp. Illustrated with 13 tipped-in plates from photographs and paintings, including frontispiece; 2 map drawings; pictorial endpapers. (4to) decorative tan-brown cloth with dark brown footprint vignettes on covers and spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Large Paper Edition, second issue.
First appeared in Issues 256-263 of The Strand Magazine. Although Doyle had dealt with Science Fiction previously in "The Doings of Raffles Haw and hinted at 'lost race' and animal mutations in his short stories, this was to be his most famous work in the field, with a superb plot and probably his best characterization in Professor Challenger." Locke 61; Mortlake 706; Green & Gibson A37d.
Condition Report: Some rubbing and soiling to cloth; light offsetting from plates; very good.
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Heading:
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Title: The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the "Daily Gazette"
Place Published: London
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran Co.
Date Published: [c. 1914]
Description:
x, 11-319 pp. Illustrated with 13 tipped-in plates from photographs and paintings, including frontispiece; 2 map drawings; pictorial endpapers. (4to) decorative tan-brown cloth with dark brown footprint vignettes on covers and spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Large Paper Edition, second issue.
First appeared in Issues 256-263 of The Strand Magazine. Although Doyle had dealt with Science Fiction previously in "The Doings of Raffles Haw and hinted at 'lost race' and animal mutations in his short stories, this was to be his most famous work in the field, with a superb plot and probably his best characterization in Professor Challenger." Locke 61; Mortlake 706; Green & Gibson A37d.
Condition Report: Some rubbing and soiling to cloth; light offsetting from plates; very good.