The Lost World
by DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. 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.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14368J
- Title
- The Lost World
- Author
- DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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