THE LOST CITY

Boy Explorers in Central Asia


Written by David Ker. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Copyright 1884; this is the first American trade edition—the book was first printed in England and in Harper’s Young People Illustrated Weekly Magazine in 1884.

This book is in the “Lost Race” genre and about an ancient Greek city found in Tashkent.

From THE Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:

David Ker (1842-1914) was an UK author of Scots ancestry who became a tutor in Russia and was Daily Telegraph and New York Herald war correspondent with the Russian army in the 1870s. His stories for include three Lost Race tales: The Lost City; Or, the Boy Explorers in Central Asia (16 October 1883-1 January 1884 Harper's Young People Illustrated Weekly; 1884), in which an ancient Greek city is found in Tashkent; Lost Among White Africans: A Boy's Adventures on the Upper Congo (1886), in which a tribe of white Africans, descended from Portuguese explorers, has flourished; and Into Unknown Seas; Or, the Cruise of Two Sailor-Boys (1886). Two titles; Lost Among White Africans – The Lost Race & The Unknown River 1888 and Out with Stanley; Or, Adventures in the Great Dark Land undated – are listed in E F Bleiler's Science Fiction: The Early Years (1990) but have not been traced.

DESCRIPTION:

173 pages + 8 pages publisher’s catalog in back

6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches

first edition hardcover

CONDITION:

This hard-cover book is in very good condition. The gray cloth hardcover is a bit soiled and shows light wear at the corners and spine ends. The book is ex-library. A label er number mark on the spine was rubbed out and covered over with what looks like felt pen. There has been a reattachment and reinforcement of the front endpaper. A library label, blacked out, is attached to the front pastedown and “withdrawn stamps are on the front and rear pastedown. The interior is otherwise very good with no other stamps, names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is somewhat toned with age. The hinges and binding are very good with no loose or missing pages.

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