6/10/2023 0 Comments The lost world doyle![]() ![]() Private owner's bookplate affixed to recto of front free endpaper. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 264. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 27. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 612. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 43. 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. ![]() written as pure entertainment, and as such it is a huge success. ![]() 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. 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. The remainder were bound later, most issued in 1914 in brown cloth, others distributed sometime later. ![]() 1000 sets of sheets for of the Presentation edition were printed, but only 190 copies of this first issue were produced. First edition, large paper copy, first issue. vi-vii 9-319, 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. ![]()
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