THE VAMPIRES OF THE ANDES. London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-320, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red. First edition. "Lost race science-fantasy adventure novel incorporating descendants of Atlantis and other ancient races, huge blood-sucking birds, the elixir of life, etc., all set in an underground land beneath South America." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 48. One of the more imaginative lost race novels of the 1920s, but the story is disorganized and clumsily presented and the book is almost unreadable as a novel. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 367. Carter, The Vampire in Literature, p. 57. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 135. Frost, The Monster with a Thousand Faces, p. 63. Bleiler (1978), p. 39. Reginald 02572. Not in Eichner. Portions of pictorial dust jacket (including the front panel showing chained woman menaced by vampire bird) pasted to front endpapers, cloth worn at extremities, mainly spine ends, DAW ink-stamp on rear free endpaper, a very good copy. Curtis Brown literary agency stamps on front endpapers. (#170509).
Price: $450.00
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