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Item #13293 A Parisian Sultana. Adolphe Belot, trans. H. Mainwaring Dunstan

A Parisian Sultana

London: Remington & Co., 1879. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Three volumes, complete. Quite uncommon. First published in 1877 as La Sultane Parisienne, La Fievre de L;Inconnu and La Venus Noire. A fantastic copy. A touch knocked at the spine tips, very light rubbing. Also issued as a......

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Item #13512 When the Earth Swung Over. Alfred Colbeck

When the Earth Swung Over

London: The 'Boy's Own Paper', nd [1926]. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. Offered in the rare jacket. "...a lost world tale set in South America, where the survivors of the sinking of Atlantis have established a civilization." [SFE, JC]. Republished in 2022 as part of Armchair Fiction's Lost.....

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Item #10561 From Behind the Veil. Andrew J. Arthur

From Behind the Veil

St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company, 1901. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper. A rare lost race novel involving Central America wherein the Toltecs and the Chichimecs are at each others' throats. Of fantasy interest is the mountain-top lake with a......

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Item #12521 The Temple of Melekartha. Anonymous, Isaac Taylor

The Temple of Melekartha

London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1831. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon book with only two located in commerce in last few decades. "...a long disquisitional tale at the heart of which may be found an impressive city built on ruins left by a lost race dating.....

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Item #10864 Pagan Rites and Ceremonies of the Mayaboon Indians in the City of Iximaya in Central...

Pagan Rites and Ceremonies of the Mayaboon Indians in the City of Iximaya in Central America [aka] Memoir of an Eventful Expedition into Central America; Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; and the Possession of Two Remarkable Aztec Children, Maximo (The Man) and Bartola (The Girl) Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Cast (Now Nearly Extinct), of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country

No Place: No Publisher, nd [1860s?]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Recbound in quarter leather. Pulp leaves heavily tanned. One of a number of books from the time creating a fantasy around the Salvadoran siblings. Probably classes as a Lost Race work.

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Item #9686 Wine of Death: A Tale of the Lost Long-Ago. Anthony Armstrong

Wine of Death: A Tale of the Lost Long-Ago

London: Stanley Paul, n.d. [1925]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon Atlantis / Lost World novel. A few copies in libraries but we've only located two copies in commerce. Lacks the jacket, slight lean with some bumping to the spine tips. Owner's inscription. A little spotting.....

Price: £750.00

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Item #10334 The Fallen Race. Austyn Granville

The Fallen Race

New York: F.T. Neely, 1892. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author with a quote. A rare work of Australian science fiction, being a lost race novel set in the Outback. Some tanning to the spine and a little bumping. Owner's plate to the front.....

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Item #5953 Dwifa's Curse. Blue Wolf, Joyce Reason

Dwifa's Curse

London: Robert Scott, n.d. [1921 BL]. First / First. Hardback. Lost Race. A nice copy in the rare dust jacket. Pleasently illustrated with chapter vignettes and some full page illustrations (unattributed). Not really a lost race novel, given the prehistoric setting (pretty much everything would be lost race), but sits.....

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Item #11039 Kowa The Mysterious. Charles Foley

Kowa The Mysterious

London: Everett & Co., 1909. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A Yellow Peril thriller, where we find a city of Chinese inhabitants beneath an American city. Pretty straightforward racism. Translated by William Frederick Harvey. A little knocking to the board edges and corners. Trivial foxing to the.....

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Item #11655 The Land of Unreason. Dean Gulliver, Pseudonym

The Land of Unreason

London: London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1905. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon Lost Race novel. "describes an extensive absurd civilization on an island called "Land of Unreason" but it's clearly Britain." [Salmonson, online]. A little tanning to the spine, some bumping and rubbing to the.....

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Item #10093 The Extra Passenger. Douglas Timins

The Extra Passenger

London: Hutchinson, n.d. [1928]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the half title. Appears to be a lost race of sorts, though perhaps marginally as from the brief reading it suggests that it's more of an isolated tribe in South America. Jacket a......

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Item #11181 Fields of Sleep. E. Charles Vivian

Fields of Sleep

London: Hutchinson, nd [1923]. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author to the half-title. A lost race novel set in the far east. Lacking the jacket. An uncommon book. Spine a touch sunned, boards a little mottled. 40pp ads.

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Item #11866 The White Tiger. F A. Mitchell-Hedges

The White Tiger

London: Gerald Duckworth, 1931. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A lost race novel involving an Aztec civilisation in Mexico. Uncommon. Jacket chipped and worn, with toning and edge wear. Two small areas of loss to the top edges, connected by creasing. Internally neat with just a little.....

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Item #5975 Yermah the Dorado. Frona Eunice Wait

Yermah the Dorado

New York: William Doxey, 1897. First / First. Hardback. Inscribed by the author, uncommon thus. Also, Oswald Train's copy, with his plate to the front pastedown. Lengthy inscription from the author: "For Mrs. Ida Jeffrey's Good Friend with friendly greetings from the author Frona Eunice Wait New York Jan 23rd.....

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Item #10636 Yermah the Dorado. Frona Eunice Wait Colburn

Yermah the Dorado

New York: The Alice Harriman Company, 1913. Second / First. Hardback. Near fine copy in a very good jacket. The book was first printed in 1897. Inscribed by the author. A Lost race novel; Atlantis [Bleiler, p201]. In the jacket with some chips to the corners and a few short.....

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Item #11748 A Criminal Croesus [Crœsus]. George Griffith

A Criminal Croesus [Crœsus]

London: John Long, 1904. First / First. Hardback. Lost Race. "...underground world inhabited by the descendants of some trapped Norse travellers; plenty of gold and silver; attempts to exploit the inhabitants and the setting up of a United States of South America". [Locke volI, p97]. Locke has Griffiths as the.....

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Item #5976 The Virgin of the Sun. George Griffith

The Virgin of the Sun

London: Arthur Pearson, 1898. Limited Hardback. Presentation copy. Inscribed by the author to the publisher. Front free endpaper bears Pearson's inscription, locating it in his library. Half-title bears the author's inscription 'Cyril Arthur Pearson from George Griffith 1898'. Vellum-bound unlike the regular cloth issue. Condition is very good; vellum rubbed.....

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Item #11296 Philoland. Gilbert Lane Harney

Philoland

New York & London: F.Tennyson Neely, 1900. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A rare item. "A balloon voyage to the interior world beneath the Arctic. The people are of ancient Hebrew descent. A vast population, settled in several cities. Great longevity and no disease. Advanced scientific marvels".....

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Item #13398 The Lost Children. H. Herman Chilton

The Lost Children

London: Hutchinson, nd [1931]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Subtitled: The Story of an Utopia. A lost race tale / utopian novel: three modern-day travelers discover a hidden civilisation in the Carpathians inhabited by the descendants of the children led away from Hamelin by the Pied Piper.....

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Item #5942 The Temple of Demos. H M. Bower

The Temple of Demos

London: John Ouseley, n.d. [1912 BL]. First / First. Hardback. Lost Race. A satire on an ancient and imaginary civilisation [Locke, vI, p38]. The present copy, from Locke's library, is an advanced copy with a presentation inscription from the author. A newspaper clipping is pasted in, as is a typed.....

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Item #11611 The Temple of Demos. H M. Bower

The Temple of Demos

London: John Ouseley, n.d. [1912 BL]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Lost Race. A satire on an ancient and imaginary civilisation [Locke, vI, p38]. In Blieler, as allegory / symbolism [p28] . An advance copy, signed in pencil to the front pastedown by the author, with minor.....

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