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J. Provand Webster. The Oracle of Baal. A Narrative of Some Curious Events in the Life of Professor Horatio Carmichael. Phil: J. B. Lippincott, 1896, 1st. American edition, 374 pp., publisher's ads (vi). *** Set in the 18th. century. An adventurous Scottish lad sets off for remote parts of Africa in order to find and reclaim a lost inheritance. He encounters a deadly swamp inhabited by giant leeches, a cave filled with poisonous gas, an impassable volcanic landscape, a race of Wolfmen, and a lost race from ancient Greece and Carthage. Frontis. illustration and twelve plate illustrations by Warwick Goble. The book comes with a clear mylar protective cover. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Bound in green pictorial cloth boards and spine with woman pirate in full regalia on front cover and a jolly roger on the spine. Near Fine condition. Front hinge paper re-glued. *** 8 inches tall by 6 inches
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