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The corners are sharp, the spine is still beautifully rigid, the book has no edgewear and the binding is tight and square.
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Stamped with unfaded vibrant gilt titles and with fantastic dinosaur imprints marching across the front and rear board. A lovely FINE condition, extremely clean example of this title with fine beveled brown boards still maintaining their original sheen. Beveled edges, uncut fore edge, pictorial end papers, 13 color and b/w plates and two maps and gilt top stain. This copy is in the Tan/ Brown cloth, spine and cover stamped in gilt and dark brown dinosaur footprints. 1,000 copies were printed, of which 190 were bound in blue cloth (First State) in 1912 and the remaining 810 were issued in tan/brown cloth (Second State). First Edition An extraordinary FINE condition copy of this title of the De Luxe large paper edition ? First edition, second issue, in brown cloth. This and a bellowing, roaring, rumbling voice made up my first impression of the notorious Professor Challenger.Ó. A huge spread of shoulders and a chest like a barrel were the other parts of him which appeared above the table, save for two enormous hands covered with long black hair. The eyes were blue-gray under great black tufts, very clear, very critical, and very masterful. The hair was peculiar, plastered down in front in a long, curving wisp over his massive forehead. He had the face and beard which I associate with an Assyrian bull the former florid, the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down over his chest.
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I am sure that his top-hat, had I ever ventured to don it, would have slipped over me entirely and rested on my shoulders. His head was enormous, the largest I have ever seen upon a human being. It was his size which took one's breath away-his size and his imposing presence. I was prepared for something strange, but not for so overpowering a personality as this. The drawing captures well the massive image of Professor Challenger as Doyle as him make his first appearance in The Lost World: ÒAs I entered, his seat spun round to face me. The drawing remained in the family for over 90 years until it was sold at ChristieÕs London among the Doyle papers offered by the estate of Anna Conan Doyle. It was first made known to the public by John Dickson Carr in his 1949 authorized biography of Doyle, when Carr listed this drawing in his printed inventory of the Conan Doyle papers in the possession of the family. This drawing has an impeccable provenance. He even had himself made-up as Professor Challenger for the mock photograph that appears as the frontispiece in the first edition and another pose of Doyle as Challenger was stamped in gilt on the front cover cloth. More than any other book in his career, Doyle enthusiastically went to great lengths to help produce and promote The Lost World. At the time of the writing of The Lost World, Doyle was enjoying one of the happiest periods in his life. This drawing bears a striking resemblance to the illustrations drawn by Harry Rountree for the bookÕs serialization in The Strand Magazine and possibly it was shown to him by Doyle. Undoubtedly, it dates from two years earlier, when Doyle was writing The Lost World. Lady Conan Doyle is mistaken regarding the date of this drawing as she started annotating some of Doyle papers in the 1930s after her husbandÕs passing. Measuring approximately 8 x 6", but irregularly shaped, with the left top edge cut in an arc lined notebook paper and is captioned by his wife, Lady Jean Conan Doyle, "Arthur drew this (1913) as an idea of his conception of Challenger." Foxed marginal tears very good. The only existing portrait of Professor Challenger hand-drawn by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.