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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".
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1912]. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vii]; 319. With photographic portrait frontispiece of members of the expedition, plates and map (complete). Bound in the publisher's pictorial mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration of Challenger to upper, titled and bordered in white. Edges toned/spotted, binding handled, joints rubbed, white trim flaking as often found. A useable copy of this classic adventure. The first Challenger novel, in which our hero travels to a Lost World in the Amazon forest where dinosaurs, Pterodactyls and ape men could still exist. Item #61064
Green and Gibson A37. Harold Locke Bibliography p.61-63.
Price: £395.00
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