The Lost World.

An attractive example of the first edition of The Lost World, perhaps the most celebrated Arthur Conan Doyle title outside the Sherlock Holmes canon. The depiction of the central character, Professor Challenger on the book cover is in fact Arthur Conan Doyle in disguise (he also posed with friends for the photographic frontispiece portraying Challenger and the other members of the exploring party). Doyle based the Challenger on Professor Rutherford, whom he had known at Edinburgh and partly on himself. This book edition was published on 15 October 1912, the serialisation in Strand Magazine having commenced in April the same year.