Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

8vo (186 x 124mm.), illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece of members of the expedition, plates and line cut maps, original blue cloth blocked and titled in white and gilt, pictorial gilt design of Professor Challenger on upper cover, DUST-JACKET, collector's matching blue morocco slipcase, some minor offsetting to endpapers, expert restoration to folds and edges of jacket

Green & Gibson A37a

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A RARE COPY IN DUST-JACKET OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST CELEBRATED WORK OUTSIDE THE SHERLOCK HOLMES CANON. The image of Professor Challenger on the upper panel of the jacket is in fact Conan Doyle in disguise -- he also posed with friends for the photographic frontispiece portraying Challenger and the other members of the mythical exploring party. Doyle based the central character partly on Professor Rutherford whom he had known at Edinburgh and partly on himself. This book edition was published on 15 October 1912, the serialization in Strand Magazine having started in April the same year.