[DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN]. 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: Published by Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912].
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 12 x 4.5 cm); pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-319 [320: printer's imprint]. English text. Publisher's dark blue cloth; titles to upper board in white, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt, initial and terminal blanks; with eight plates, plus two maps and a small diagram within the text. Printed by Wyman & Sons Ltd., London and Reading. Condition: GOOD. Contents complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers with some rubbing to the extremities, a splash mark to upper board, and slight creasing to spine cloth. Interior well-preserved with a few intermittent marks, and a discrete previous owner name to front endpaper.
Notes: A good example of the first edition of The Lost World, perhaps the most celebrated Arthur Conan Doyle title outside the Sherlock Holmes canon. The first Professor Challenger story, in which the scientist and his exploring party locate a remnant of the prehistoric world on a plateau in South America. Challenger's narrative "remains the most famous of its type and has served as a model since its publication", inspiring many book and film adaptations. The book edition was published on 15 October 1912, the serialisation in Strand Magazine having commenced in April the same year. [Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-63; Green & Gibson A37a].
