THE GOLDEN KINGDOM: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE QUEST FOR THE SAME AS DESCRIBED IN THE REMARKABLE NARRATIVE OF DOCTOR HENRY MORTIMER, CONTAINED IN THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND WITHIN THE BOARDS OF A BOER BIBLE DURING THE LATE WAR. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-424 [1]-5: ads [6: blank] [1]-2: ads, inserted folded frontispiece and folded map drawn by G. K. Green, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in black, white and gold, spine panel stamped in white and black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U. S. edition. Lost race adventure novel in which a golden city inhabited by a bronze-skinned race ruled by Whites is discovered in the interior of Africa. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 037. Bleiler (1948), p. 38. Not in Bleiler (1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Two tiny nicks to cloth along bottom edge of front cover, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, a bright, tight, very good or better copy of a handsome book. (#103719).
Price: $75.00
"Published May, 1903" on copyright page.