Description

Hardcover, quarto size volume bound in forest green cloth , lettered in white gold on cover and spine, with large pictorial paste-down by Jim Vadeboncoeur on upper cover. 226 pages. Illustrated with 50 plates and in-text images, chiefly by Golden Age illustrator Harry Roundtree, with some contributions by Maple White, Doyle’s alias. First edition thus, being an unabridged republication of the title as it first appeared in serialized form in the Strand magazine, from April through November, 1912. In this subgenre of science fiction Professor Challenger proved to be as famous and enduring a character of Sherlock Homes in detective fiction. This tale of a prehistoric plateau located in the Amazon was his first appearance and spawned many imitations going forward in later literature and then films. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new.