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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