DOYLE, Arthur Conan.

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The Lost World. First edition, one of 190 large paper copies in the first issue blue cloth, and including five more plates than the trade issue. Doyle's hugely popular science fiction novel inspired many works reviving prehistoric monsters, from King Kong to Jurassic Park."His sense of the glory and nonsense of scientific advance found happy resolution in The Lost World (1912), where academic vendetta at its most ludicrous continually punctuates a thrilling quest to establish the survival of dinosaurs" (ODNB).The large paper issue comprised 1,000 copies, of which 810 were reissued two years later in brown cloth with a cancel title page calling for a new edition. The story was originally serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1912.

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