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Doyle, Arthur Conan. Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Former library book. Binding shaken, but intact, olive green boards with gilt lettering rubbed at corners and edges, faded, but legible gilt lettering to spine strip with frayed ends, residue from card pocket on front paste down, crossed out name on front end paper, unmarked pages throughout. 1st American Edition As is.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: NO dust jacket. Gilt titling to boards; no later printings mentioned. Professor George Edward Challenger (partially based on real-life explorer Percy Fawcett) is doubtless Conan Doyle's second-best-known character. The landmark 1925 First National silent film was directed by Harry Hoyt and starred Wallace Beery and Bessie Love, with stop-motion dinosaur special effects by Willis O'Brien (who later animated the creatures for Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack's classic 1933 "King Kong.") The 1925 film was "lost" for more than 50 years. By contract, all known prints had been destroyed in 1929. Only an abbreviated 16 mm. print was known until a nearly full length print was discovered in the film archives of the Czech Republic in the 1990s. Due to budget constraints, Irwin Allen's unfortunate 1960 color remake (Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison) had to pass on the stop-motion monsters, settling for live lizards with little horns glued on. A direct-to-TV 2001 British version (Bob Hoskins, James Fox, and strangely enough Peter Falk) was more successful. Science fiction. 309 pp., reduced from $77.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$69.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: brown gold cloth, missing plate at page 202, a few corners torn from pages, no markings
Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American Edition. Original brown cloth, good plus with gold titles, fairly bright. Contains some rubbing to front and rear covers and fading to spine. This copy lacking bookplates on pages 82 and 262, also has previous owner inscription on front fly leaf.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
A. Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder & Stroughton/George H. Doran, New York, 1912.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This volume has been rebound with half leather and marbled boards, new endpapers.There are two illustrations missin - one on page 104 and the other page 190. The book is a newer rebound and looks fresh and colorful
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran Company, 1912.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition (Goldscheider 480). Owner by American naturalist George Henry Perkins, state entomologist/geologist of Vermont (his name stamped in ink on front endpaper). Minimal cosmetic wear. 1912 Hard Cover. 309 pp. Includes frontispiece and 15 plates. "It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meets Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a 'lost world' populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton and Geroge H. Doran Company, New York, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 20 x 14 cm. 12mo. 309pp. 16 illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll and Maple White. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First American edition with 1912 on copyright page and no additional printings noted. No date on title page. There is a dark stain to the spine. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. A few of the pages show foxing. Binding is tight. Small stain at front gutter.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: a bit loose and worn back hinge cracked. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton, New York (George H. Duran Company), 1912.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, New York (George H. Duran Company), 1912. First US edition, with 16 illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll and Maple White. These illustrations appeared with the serialization of the novel in The Washington DC Evening Star (March 24 through July 21, 1912). Beige cloth with gold titles on front and spine. Good, with wear to exterior hinges, spine, and fore-edge. Interior is VG. Gift inscription on free endsheet dated 1912. No jacket.
Seller: Kachina Motel Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton, NY, 1912.
Price: US$212.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in olive green cloth, stamped in gold, with a bit of rubbing to extremes, but overall, tight and clean. The gilt is still bright on the front panel and the spine. This is the first Professor Challenger adventure. Contains all 16 plates. Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. 309 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$273.59 + shipping
Description: Good to very good copy in the the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine-bands and panel edges rubbed with minor wear. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Front. , plates, map, chart. 20 cm. Form/Genre: Science fiction. Ref: Green & Gibson, A37E. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$307.68 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The first edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's popular science-fiction adventure novel, the first work in the Professor Challenger series. The standard paper first trade edition of this science fiction novel from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Illustrated with eight plates and two maps. Collated, complete.'The Lost World' is probably Conan Doyle's best known work excluding Sherlock Holmes series. The novel concerns an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistorical, seemingly extinct, animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine, before being published in book form.Undated, as called for, with the printer's colophon to verso of final leaf 'Wyman and Sons Ltd., printers London and Reading'.With the inscription of W. F. Temple to the front pastedown, and the stamp of W. G. Carpenter to the rear pastedown, a front blank, and the recto of the frontispiece. Further former owner's inscription to frontispiece recto. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Lacking cloth back strip. Significant fading to boards. Fraying to back strip head. Joints starting, with rear board tender, but front board firmly held. Inscription to front pastedown. Former owner's stamp to a front blank and the rear pastedown. Inscription to recto of frontispiece. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout. Pages lightly age toned, with significant handling marks and spotting throughout. One plate detached and loosely inserted, with another only tenderly held. Fair
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$310.00 + shipping
Description: Good to very good copy in the the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine-bands and panel edges rubbed with minor wear. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Front. , plates, map, chart. 20 cm. Form/Genre: Science fiction. Ref: Green & Gibson, A37E. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
. The Lost World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1912, 1912.
Price: US$323.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition for age in this first edition binding is a bit loose all pages and plates happily present see photographs of this first edition thanks!
Seller: Vancouver Books, VANCOUVER, BC, Canada
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton, George H. Doran Company, New York, 1912.
Price: US$334.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, Light brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine and cover as issued. Book is in great shape, 16 illustrations to include frontispiece all present. 309 pages 1912 gift inscription inside front paste-down
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE LOST WORLD. Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran, 1912.
Price: US$342.20 + shipping
Description: THE LOST WORLD, Hodder & Stoughton / Geroge H. Doran, 1912, first American edition, light rubbing to the corner tips, small lightened area to the spine, else a tight, bright, vg+ or better copy with 16 wonderful drawings by Joseph Clement Coll not present in the English edition. CHALLENGER #1. Filmed several times. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, Nd. 1912. Eight full page plates and text maps. Foxed throughout, heavy in some places. Page edges darkened and foxed. Publisher blue cloth with white lettering and a gilt picture of Professor Challenger on front cover, Spine lettered in gilt. Spine edge of rear cover split and slightly frayed. Spine slightly creased and marked. Edges generally rubbed and with some general marking. The front decorated cover is nice and bright. Still a good copy of the first edition. 319 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton, New York, 1912.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 309pp. Frontispiece, 14 (out of 15) called-for full-page plates (lacks "The Plateau," p. 262). Near fine. Superbly tight and handsome first U.S. edition of Doyle's adventure yarns. Lacks one plate, else a truly sharp copy, with gilt lettering bright.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. The first of the Professor Challenger stories. Illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll and five by Maple White. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-31. Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, #612. Cawthorn & Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #27. A just about fine copy, mild dustiness to edges, small vertical crease at spine (binding flaw?), touch of rubbing to spine ends, small stain to lower rear panel. An attractive copy. (8825)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton, London, New York and Toronto, 1912.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 19.3 x 12.8 cm. 12mo. [viii], 9-[320]pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white lettering and gilt image of Professor Challenger to front cover. True first edition (British). Complete with 8 illustrations including frontispiece. Rubbing to the cloth. Preivous owner's name on front free endpaper. Scattered foxing, mostly to the first and last few pages as well as the foredges. One of the plates is partially detached. Rear gutter cracked. Fading to the white on the cover text. Green and Gibson A37a.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$506.38 + shipping
Description: [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. Very good. 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. Green and Gibson A37. Harold Locke Bibliography p.61-63.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE LOST WORLD. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$551.00 + shipping
Description: THE LOST WORLD, Hodder & Stoughton / London, 1912, first edition, some light scattered foxing to the page edges, end-papers, paste-downs and several leaves of the text block, else a tight, bright just about vg copy (with the marvelous frontis piece of Doyle himself as Challenger) of this, the first Professor Challenger novel. Among the authors best books. Illustrated with all 8 plates and 2 maps. George Edward Challenger #1.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder Stauton, Great Britain, 1912.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition without dust jacket as usual. There are some drawing of dinosaurs on the blank pages and a slightly faded spot on back cover the size of a nickel. A Professor Challenger adventure.A very sound copy of a SF classic by the author of Sherlock Holmes
Seller: Dave Silva, Seal Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$762.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition with the photographic frontis of the "expedition" with Conan Doyle as Professor Challenger. The Lost World was originally published as a series in the Strand Magazine. The book contains black and white sketches and 8 photographs. Original blue cloth boards with white borders and lettering. Spine is creased and minimal wear to the boards. Front hinge is cracked although binding is good. Inked names, "Mr A. J. Watson" on the front free page. 8vo 319pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton N.d. [1912], London, 1912.
Price: US$833.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 319 pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated blue cloth with white lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Scattered foxing, rubbing to the spine. With tissue guarded frontis & 7 illustrations. The frontispiece photograph includes the author heavily disguised as Professor Challenger. Binding firm. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-319 [320: printer's imprint], eight inserted plates, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and white, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 10,716 copies printed. 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." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-63. ". written as pure entertainment, and as such it is a huge success. It stands at the very end of an era of great adventure stories, and it is the equal of anything else in its genre." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1270-73. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-67; (1981) 1-63; (1987) 1-31; (1995) 1-31; and (2004) II-354. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 43. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 612. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 264. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. In 333. Bleiler (1987), p. 63. Reginald 04496. Green and Gibson A37a. Wolff 1908. Tissue guard foxed, a clean, very good copy. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. (#166099)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder And Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hodder and Stoughton n.d. [1912]., London, New York, Toronto, 1912. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-319 [320: printer's imprint], eight inserted plates, original pictorial blue cloth gilt 8vo. with all plates laid in is a post card of an exotic locale. This is 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." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-63. ". written as pure entertainment, and as such it is a huge success. It stands at the very end of an era of great adventure stories, and it is the equal of anything else in its genre." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1270-73. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-67; (1981) 1-63; (1987) 1-31; (1995) 1-31; and (2004) II-354. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 43. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 612. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 264. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. In 333. Bleiler (1987), p. 63. Reginald 04496. Green and Gibson A37a. Wolff 1908 this is a good copy with the spine faded and worn, else the boards and the book is excellent, under a mylar dust jacket. In the film version a woman is added to the cast and I believe the film starred Claude Rains as the Professor. ca. 1960
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder &Stoughton London, 1912.
Price: US$1217.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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''. Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, London. No date (1912). First De Luxe large paper edtion, second state, of which 1000 copies were printed,190 bound in blue cloth (first state) and 810 in brown cloth (secomd state) with more illustrations than in the trade edition. Tan cloth (bevelled edges) with ''Milford'' imprint at tail of spine. Royal octavo. 319 pages. Mounted plates, a few in colour. One plate ('The monster' detached but present). Covers blocked with dinosaur footprint design. Black and white/sepia effect pictorial endpapers. Gift inscription on verso of frontispiece. Covers rubbed and marked. signs of damp to edge of rear cover. Binding firm. An amazing book. Overall very good.
Seller: Amos Drake Rare Books, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-319 [320: printer's imprint], eight inserted plates, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and white, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 10,716 copies printed. 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." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-63. ". written as pure entertainment, and as such it is a huge success. It stands at the very end of an era of great adventure stories, and it is the equal of anything else in its genre." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1270-73. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-67; (1981) 1-63; (1987) 1-31; (1995) 1-31; and (2004) II-354. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 43. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 612. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 264. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. In 333. Bleiler (1987), p. 63. Reginald 04496. Green and Gibson A37a. Wolff 1908. Bookplate of T. H. Ellison affixed to front paste-down. Endpapers and edges of text block foxed, a nearly fine copy. A bright, attractive, externally fine copy of this classic. (#130657)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton, London UK, 1912.
Price: US$1281.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good condition copy of Doyle's science fiction novel of an expedition to South America."Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlea, and Mr E. D. Malone of the 'Daily Gazette'". The Lost World was originally published as a series in the Strand Magazine. The book contains black and white sketches and photographs. Original blue cloth boards with white borders and gilt lettering. Mild wear to the edges and spine ends. A few minor marks on the covers. Previous owners signature on the front free page. Lightly spotted pages ends and contents are clean. Intact tissue guard protecting the black and white frontispiece. 8vo 319 pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
CONAN DOYLE, ARTHUR. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1912.
Price: US$1680.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Blue cloth gilt lettered on spine and lettered in white on front panel.beside a gilt image of Professor Challenger. 319 pp with 8 tipped in plates including the frontis. No date but 1912. A very nicely preserved copy with some wear to the white on front panel. General wear to edges but o/w a very clean sharp copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1725.00 + shipping
Description: Illustr, 7.5 x 5, gilt pict blue cloth, 319 pp, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine creased, hinges loose, some scattered light spotting; a decent, usable copy of the FIRST ENGLISH EDITION (per Green and Gibson, with gilt Prof. Challenger image on front cover); LAID IN LOOSE IS A SMALL, GLUE-STAINED LETTER-CLOSING INSCRIBED "Yours faithfully" AND SIGNED BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First US Edition, First Printing. 1912 stated on copyright page. Dust jacket has $1.25 net price printed on spine. Book near fine, previous owner's name written on front paste-down and half-title page; front free end paper missing; small bookstore sticker at bottom of rear paste-down. Dust jacket good with wear and chips and some small pieces missing, a few tears along hinges and one on front panel with some tape on inside of dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-319 [320: printer's imprint], thirteen illustrations pasted to light brown mounts tipped in, original pictorial light blue cloth over heavy bevel-edged boards, front and spine panels lettered in gold, dinosaur footprints stamped in blind on front, spine and rear panels, t.e.g., pictorial endpapers. First edition, large paper copy, first issue. 1000 sets of sheets for of the Presentation edition were printed, but only 190 copies of this first issue were produced. The remainder were bound later, most issued in 1914 in brown cloth, others distributed sometime later. 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." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-63. ". written as pure entertainment, and as such it is a huge success. It stands at the very end of an era of great adventure stories, and it is the equal of anything else in its genre." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1270-73. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-67; (1981) 1-63; (1987) 1-31; (1995) 1-31; and (2004) II-354. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 43. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 612. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 264. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. In 333. Bleiler (1987), p. 63. Reginald 04496. Green and Gibson A37c. Private owner's bookplate affixed to recto of front free endpaper. Spine panel just a bit faded, 14 mm closed tear in cloth at upper spine end, minor foxing to first and last few pages, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#75137)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Lost World. London Hodder and Stoughton 1912, 1912.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition - Deluxe Large Paper Version in the First Issue Binding. 13 plates tipped to captioned light brown mounts, tissue-guards present, Very good copy in the original light blue cloth, the faded backstrip and the front cover gilt lettered, the dinosaur footprints blocked in blind across the covers and backstrip, illustrated endpapers, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, Occasional trace of foxing else over all a very good copy with the hinges still tight. Scarce. Only 190 of the 1,000 copies form the first issue bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth, the remaining sets of sheets were bound in heavier brown cloth and later copies have a revised imprint at the tail of the spine.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.