London: Hutchinson, N.d. [1938]

8vo, pp. 408, 8pp. catalogue of Wheatley titles and 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine, publisher's name in gilt to front board. Map endpapers. Spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, some light general edgewear, and an unobtrusive 1cm closed tear to top edge of rear panel.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'For W. Royden, with the best of good wishes from his friend Dennis Wheatley'. Walter Royden Smith (born Walter Smith) was head of the books department at Selfridges & Co. during the 1940s, and was the father of the actor Auriol Smith.

An early Wheatley title, a lost world novel, and the basis for Hammer's The Lost Continent (1968), directed by Michael Carreras and starring Eric Porter and Hildergard Knef.

Inscribed, in the dust jacket, and rare.