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The Poison Belt. Being an account of another amazing adventure of Professor Challenger.
New York: Hodder and Stoughton / George H. Doran, 1913. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252. With sixteen full-page black and white plates drawn by Harry Rountree. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Contents clean and fresh, no ink inscriptions, small rub/scuff to fore-edge of text block, covers clean and bright with minor wear to extremities. A fine copy. The second Professor Challenger fantasy following "The Lost World" published the year before. A first-rate sequel which continues the adventures of one of the most memorable characters in speculative fiction. Brilliant, witty, insufferable, and blessed with a booming voice and a huge black beard, Professor George Challenger is an eccentric and able champion of the human race. Item #71720
Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [252]. Green and Gibson; A Bibliography of Arthur Conan Doyle [A38c].
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