THE VOICE OF DASHIN: A ROMANCE OF WILD MOUNTAINS. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 11-314 [315-318] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original decorated orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Lost race adventure novel set in an unknown region to the north of India in the Himalayas. "Strongly in the tradition of H. Rider Haggard, with a She-like figure, inflated speech and all. Ethnographically sound, literate, but rather dull." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 671. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 838. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 326. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 88. Teitler (2013) 460. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 05752. A fine copy in very good or better four-color pictorial dust jacket with shelf wear at edges and a stain at the bottom edge of the spine panel. Overall, a very nice example of the colorful, uncommon jacket. (#136516).
Price: $350.00
First printing has GHD monogram on copyright page.