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HARILEK: A ROMANCE. By "Ganpat" [pseudonym].

Ganpat (pseudonym of Martin L. Gompertz).

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xi [xii-xiii] xiv [1-3] 4-336 [337-338: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Ganpat's first novel. A lost race adventure story set in Sakaeland, an unknown region somewhere in the middle of the great deserts north of the Himalayas. "Arcadian utopia realized in Gobi desert." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 148. "Ganpat" wrote a number of adventure novels set in India and vicinity, including several lost race novels. Bleiler (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 198) observes that his work was "more authentic than Talbot Mundy's work, but inferior as fiction." Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 324. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 05750. Previous owner's name and address in pencil at front free end paper, a very good copy in a good dust jacket (illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott) with wear to edges, triangular chip to the lower right front corner, closed tear with creases to lower front panel, chipping to spine ends with no major loss. An uncommon jacket. Per L. W. Currey: "There is also a non-pictorial version of this jacket, the priority of issue is not known by us." (23608). Item #23608

Price: $150.00