Gaston Leroux — The Bride of the Sun

New York, McBride, Nast & Company, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition in English of this lost race adventure novel set in Peru, written by Gaston Leroux. First edition in English. Originally published in French in 1912, under the title 'L'Epouse du Soleil&apos. Written by French journalist and novelist Gaston Leroux, who was best known for his exciting works of detective fiction and for his popular novel 'The Phantom of the Opera&apos. 'The Bride of the Sun' is a thrilling lost world novel set in rural Peru, where Dick Montgomery hopes to marry his fiance Maria-Teresa de la Torre. However, things do not go according to plan when Maria-Teresa is kidnapped by a group of Quichua Indians who are preparing a sacrificial ceremony to the Sun King. Dick and his future father-in-law must race to rescue her before it is too late. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, lovely, with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .