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Good. First edition, presumed second issue binding. Tall octavo. 318, [1 ad] pp. Illustrated. Green cloth over beveled boards with cover art by C. Durand Chapman stamped in red and spine titled in gilt. Owner's mirror image inscription on a front blank and two pages with the text neatly bracketed in mauve ink. Binding a bit cocked, cloth dulled with soil and wear, one leaf with some diagonal creasing, sound but good only; the text is otherwise quite clean. A classic "science fiction story of an advanced race which inhabits the interior of a hollow earth. One of the best-known of a number of science fiction novels about underground civilizations..." (Locke, *Spectrum of Fantasy*, p.39). Wright III No. 648; Bleiler, *Checklist of Science Fiction*, p.29.
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Good+ Original pictorial green boards with spine and front panel stamped in gold (denoting first issue binding). Profusely illustrated. Tight binding, clean pages. Slight rubbing to corners and spine ends with dulling to gilt on spine and mild age-toning to pages. There is a split in the gutter between pastedowns and endpapers but binding remains solid. No inscriptions. Not ex-library. An excellent copy of an important book in the history of Science Fiction and Fantasy.; 8vo; 318 pages.
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BRADSHAW, William R. THE GODDESS OF ATVATABAR BEING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE INTERIOR WORLD AND CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR. Profusely Illustrated. Introduction by Julian Hawthorne. NY: J.F. Douthitt, 1892. 8vo., green cloth, stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation from Bradshaw on a front blank page: "To Mrs. Diana Belais, with the highest appreciation of her humanitarian enthusiasm and great intellectual gifts, Wm. R. Bradshaw. New York, Octo 3rd, 1911." Belais helped organize and provided funding for anti-vivisection organizations. She also wrote articles and lectured widely on the issue. She edited "Zoophilly" magazine. This lost-race novel is set in the interior of the earth at the North Pole, with Atvatabar being one of the kingdoms located there. Copies of this novel signed by Bradshaw are uncommon. Good (text is quite nice & gilt bright but the rear cover has a large red stain on the lower portion and there is some dampstaining to the lower corners of the front cover). $750.00.