The Lost World
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fine (Facsimile DW)
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. 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. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Fine (Facsimile DW). Illus. by Joseph Clement Coll; Maple White.
Synopsis
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke . In 1893 Conan Doyle published The Final Problem in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of The Final Problem but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7000937
- Title
- The Lost World
- Author
- DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Illustrator
- Joseph Clement Coll; Maple White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fine (Facsimile DW)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Challenger
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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