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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The Poison Belt. London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913].
8vo. 16 plates by Harry Rountree. (Some minor spotting). Original blue cloth blocked in black of Challenger with his wife in a spiral mist, spine lettered in gilt (spine sunned, front hinge cracked at half-title); ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (3” tear with loss to lower half of spine, several creases to front panel, few tape repairs on verso).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The Poison Belt is considered more of an “extended short story than a novel, with a good central idea” and features the author’s science fiction counterpart to Holmes, Professor Challenger. IN THE RARE DUST JACKET, that has only once come up for auction since its publication in 1913. Green and Gibson A38a.