Z R WINS. New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-270 [271] [272: blank] [273-275: ads] 276-278: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red. First edition. First printing with code "(1)" at base of text on page [271]. "Lost race adventure story; an airship race to the North Pole and the discovery of a lost people of Norse descent, living mammoths and a lake of oil. Treading the narrow path between adult and boys' fiction." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 95. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 920. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 357. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 86. Reginald 06283. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 G-442. Cloth lightly rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, rear free endpaper adhered to rear paste-down (appears to be a manufacturing defect), still a bright, tight, very good copy. (#90476).
Price: $75.00
First printing has code "(1)" at base of text on page [271].