THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A Lost Race tale set in the Andes. A story of romance, mystery, intrigue and adventure which opens in Boston, where Wilson, a former theology student, now homeless and penniless, rescues a young woman from over-officious police officers - and moves from there to a sea voyage and to the remote slopes of the Andes in South America and a search for the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, with a tissue guard , and three black-and-white plates by Charles M. Relyea. viii, 354 pp,
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth decorated with an embossed spider's web with gilt idol in the center, white lettering on front and spine (some shelfwear to the boards, corners slightly bumped, but a tight and clean copy)