Ashley (Fred, pseud. Frank Aubrey) The Temple of Fire.

Or, The Mysterious Island: A Romance of the Southern Sea.
London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1905

First edition. Square 8vo. 8 plates. 7pp. advertisements, patterned endpapers. Original pictorial sage-green cloth blocked in white & black with additional lettering in gilt.

A wonderfully bright, sharp first edition of this boys’ lost race adventure novel, set in the Pacific regions, introducing an amphibious race with webbed feet. Reprinted under the Fenton Ash by-line as a paperback in the Boys Friend Library Series, no.366, 1917.

There seems to be variant bindings, one with gilt lettering to the upper cover, one with plain white. This is the gilt one, and in our opinion preferable therefore.