" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher

London: Smith Elder, 1914. [Fantasy] 'NEW' EDITION (actually the second trade edition). Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vii]; 319. With photographic portrait frontispiece of members of the expedition and seven further plates (complete). Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to front cover and back strip. Some spotting but generally clean in a rather fresh-looking binding which has a touch of sunning to spine. 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 #61450
Price: £125.00