A Journey to the Earth's Interior - Or - Have the Poles Really Been Discovered

Aurora, Illinois: Eugene Smith Company, Printers, 1920. Revised and enlarged edition. Extremely rare, original edition. Maroon full-cloth boards, bright crisp gilt cover and spine titles, design, moderate cover, corner, edge wear, rub, ripple to back board. Front cover features blind-stamped image of a dissected planet with a golden central sun. Smooth, coated pages generally good; front and back blank endpapers adhered to pastedowns. String-bind good, square. Illustrated with full-page plates; several in color unlike later editions. Plate adjacent page 222 is removed and replaced with facsimile print of original. Dedicated to the continued progress of science and the service that it can render to humanity and published by the author at Aurora, Illinois. Solid, intact original edition. Twenty-four chapters cover all aspects of the contemporaneous science, exploration, and theories pertaining to a hollow earth with openings at the poles. Provocative bibliography for further exploration. Marshall Gardner, a hollow-earth proponent, presents his scientific hypothesis to explain the formation of hollow planets. Much on artic explorers' logs and records, scientific and anecdotal evidence. This theory also incorporates the concept of a central heat and light source, i.e. a form of sun, held in a centered space by equally applied force emanating from the midpoint of the earth's spherical crust, e.g. if crust is 800 miles thick then a form of electro-magnetic force emanates from apprx. 400 mile depth for both exterior and interior of planet. Detailed bibliography at back. 456 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.