Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Roy Pilot; Alvin Rodin — The Annotated Lost World

Indianapolis, Wessex Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A first thus edition of this annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel concerning a discovery of living dinosaurs in South America. The first thus edition of this annotated work in the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial gilt to the front board, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Originally published serially in the Strand Magazine in 1912, The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, concerning the discovery of dinosaurs which still survive in the Amazon basin of South America. This is an annotated and lavishly illustrated edition of the original text, with an introduction and detailed footnotes and appendices by Roy Pilot and Alvin Rodin. Illustrated with drawings, paintings and photographs by Joseph Clement Coll, Harry Rountree, Patrick Forbes, William Ransford, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. This edition also includes the first publication of material from The Berg Collection. Edited, with additional annotations, by Steven Doyle and Mark Gagen. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is very smart and bright. Fine . Ill.: Joseph Clement Coll; Harry Rountree; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; et al. Fine/Fine.