THE POISON BELT. New York: Hodder and Stoughton / George H. Doran Company, [1913]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [5-6] 7 [8] 9-10 [11-12] 13-252 [253-256: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks; text complete despite gap in pagination, inserted plates are included in pagination and frontispiece is counted as pages (3-4)], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Harry Rountree, publisher's red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. The second Professor Challenger story. A catastrophe novel in which the Earth passes through a region of "poisoned ether." "... one of Doyle's finest stories ..." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 613. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-69; (1981) 1-64; (1987) 1-32; and (1995) 1-32. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 266. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 42. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1702-04. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04502. Green and Gibson A38c. Early owner's name and address in ink on the front free endpaper. Mild rubbing to cloth, mainly spine ends, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#176636).
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