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Published by Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. with 16 black-on-ochre illustrations -- five by "Maple White" and 11 by Joseph Clement Coll (illustrator). 1st Edition. NO dust jacket. Gilt titling to boards; no later printings mentioned. Professor George Edward Challenger (partially based on real-life explorer Percy Fawcett) is doubtless Conan Doyle's second-best-known character. The landmark 1925 First National silent film was directed by Harry Hoyt and starred Wallace Beery and Bessie Love, with stop-motion dinosaur special effects by Willis O'Brien (who later animated the creatures for Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack's classic 1933 "King Kong.") The 1925 film was "lost" for more than 50 years. By contract, all known prints had been destroyed in 1929. Only an abbreviated 16 mm. print was known until a nearly full length print was discovered in the film archives of the Czech Republic in the 1990s. Due to budget constraints, Irwin Allen's unfortunate 1960 color remake (Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison) had to pass on the stop-motion monsters, settling for live lizards with little horns glued on. A direct-to-TV 2001 British version (Bob Hoskins, James Fox, and strangely enough Peter Falk) was more successful. Science fiction. 309 pp., reduced from $77.
Published by HarperCollins, 1988
ISBN 10: 0688078176ISBN 13: 9780688078171
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
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Condition: New. Wyeth, N. C. (illustrator).