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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Lost World. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece of members of the expedition, plates and two full-page line cut maps. 8vo, original blue cloth, front cover lettered in white with vignette gilt-stamped, spine lettered in gilt, slightly creased; dust jacket, overall minor rubbing and surface soiling, some areas of restoration along spine panel ends and folds on verso, other light edgewear; front hinge strengthened, mild discoloration to endpapers; housed in custom leather slipcase. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]
first edition, ordinary-paper edition. Virtually unobtainable in the original dust jacket. The large-paper copy (of an edition of 190) is more common. While copies of the so-called "ordinary edition" appear occasionally at auction, they are invariably compromised and lack the dust jacket. The jacket image is that of Conan Doyle disguised as Professor Challenger. A true scarcity.
