THE TREASURE OF THE ICE. A ROMANCE. London, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, [1898]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-280 [281-288: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and silver. First edition. Lost race romance wherein a colony of Greeks are found in the south polar region. "Archetypical lost race." - Teitler. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 208. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 130. Bleiler (1978), p. 23. Reginald 01335. 1899 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, endpapers a bit tanned, a very good copy with bright cover stamping. An above average copy of a scarce book. (#165823).
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