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THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION
THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION

THE LOST WORLD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1912 FIRST EDITION

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[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 edition, first print; cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19cm x 12cm x 4.5cm); 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 present; frontispiece, plus 6 (of 7) inserted illustrated plates; two plans. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding secure and square; some rubbing to extremities and bumping to spine ends; small closed tear to title-leaf; ink spot to fore edge; contents generally clean; previous owner details in pencil to front endpapers; terminal leaf with small corner piece torn away; lacking one illustrated plate but otherwise complete. A sound copy.

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 depiction of the central character, Professor Challenger on the book cover is in fact Arthur Conan Doyle in disguise (he also posed with friends for the photographic frontispiece portraying Challenger and the other members of the exploring party). Doyle based the Challenger on Professor Rutherford, whom he had known at Edinburgh and partly on himself. This book edition was published on 15 October 1912, the serialisation in Strand Magazine having commenced in April the same year.
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