BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice "The Land That Time Forgot" [A.C. McClurg, 1924] 1st Edition

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Land That Time Forgot.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1924. First printing dated June 1924. 7.5" x 5", 422pp with 4 illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth with dark blue titling, lacking dust jacket. Extremities lightly rubbed, most notably at head/tail of spine. Hinges intact and textblock clean. Very Good ex jacket.

Synopsis: During World War I a small band of survivors from a torpedoed ship find themselves stranded on an uncharted island where prehistoric creatures and primitive human types coexist. As they explore the island’s strange ecology and social divisions, they confront dinosaurs, hostile natives, and the baffling evolutionary system that produced them. The novel blends survival adventure, scientific speculation, and human drama as the cast struggles to survive and seek escape.