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Westall, William: The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance. 27749
Cassell and Co.: London 1886.
Second Edition.
Hardcover.
Original red cloth stamped in black on spine and front panel, titled in gold on spine, yellow coated endpapers. 288 pp + [16] pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated October 1986. The first edition contained an eight page publishers catalogue dated July 1986.
''UK author (1835-1903) and journalist, foreign correspondent for The Times of London, who travelled in South America. THE PHANTOM CITY: A VOLCANIC ROMANCE (1886) describes a Lost-World race of Maya-type people at pre-Conquest level. A Queer Race: The Story of a Strange People (1887) is concerned with a lost race of Elizabethan Englishmen who have undergone strange mutations in pigmentation. Don or Devil? (1901) is a rare lost-world text'' (John Eggeling/Encyclopedia of SF).
7 cm split to cloth along top front edge of spine panel, otherwise a VG copy.
Price:
50.00 GBP
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