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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). “The Lost World” [appearing in: The Strand Magazine, Volumes XLIII-XLIV, Numbers 256-263]. London: George Newnes, April-November 1912.
8 original parts, royal 8vo. Numerous black and white illustrations including frontispieces by Harry Rountree and “the late Maple White” (the author’s own faked photographs); color printed advertisement inserts throughout. Original blue printed pictorial wrappers (few spines gently sunned, some light wear at extreme ends); cloth folding box.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF “THE LOST WORLD”, serialized in eight issues of The Strand Magazine. The idea for the book came in the summer of 1910 when Doyle gave a speech at a Royal Societies Club and was introduced to several explorers and anthropologists studying South American culture. Doyle would also later be influenced by the exploits of the explorer Percy Fawcett who had just returned from South America. Doyle’s interest in local prehistory was also evident from the two large fossil feet of an iguanodon and a flint arrowhead from the Stone Age that he had on display at Windlesham. In an interview with Doyle, St. John Adcock for the Bookman remarked that these discoveries of ancient relics would “set Sir Arthur’s imagination at work on the period to which they belong and resulted in…The Lost World”. See Gibson & Green A37.