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Item Details
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| Author: |
Scott, G. Firth |
| Title: |
The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
James Bowden |
| Date: |
1898 |
| Item # : |
169532 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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302 |
| Sale Name |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 287 |
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| Description: |
| viii, 339 + [4] ad pp. 7¼x4¾, original decorative green cloth showing a Lemurian male running from an active volcano, front cover stamped in red-orange, black and bluish-cream, lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| Scarce and early Australian Science Fiction work. "An earlier shorter version was published as 'Tor Ymmothe, Queen of Lemuria' in the special Christmas number of The Golden Penny December 1896. Lemurians surviving in outback of Western Australia, & all sorts of ridiculously colorful fantasy elements, including vampirism, hollow earth" - Salmonson, Lost Race Checklist, 106. |
| Condition: |
| Spine leaning, ends and corners a bit bumped, small rubs, a few tiny white spots on rear cover; foxing chiefly to endpapers and page edges, gift inscription; generally very good. |
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