The City of Wonder
By: E. Charles Vivian
Edition: Second Edition - 1st American Edition
Publisher: Moffat, Yard & Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 287
Copyright date: None noted (1923) Printed in England
Subjects: English Fiction. adventure in foreign lands
Genres: Lost Race
First sentence: Kir-Asa stands, trebly guarded, and most remotely secure of all the world's secret places since men began to make history, away in the wilds that still exist in certain lands of the Pacific.
Description: "A wonderful book" Eden Phillpotts says in a letter to the author, "that can stand beside 'King Solomon's Mines' and not fear comparison." The story of three adventurers who crossed the trembling bridge, and came by way of the "place where ghosts chase woman" to overcome the woman who ruled monkeys, and in the end to find the "city of wonder" is one such as is rarely told. The love idyll of Princess Eve among the hidden wonders of Kir-Asa is, perhaps, the greatest feature in a story which for grip and power has few parallels in modern fiction. "Quote from the front  jacket flap"
Notes: This book was originally published in England in 1922. This 1923 American edition, stated "SECOND EDITION" on the title page and with only "Printed in England" on the copyright page, has been noted as the First American edition, taken from the pages of the English 2nd edition.  The book is bound in red cloth with a yellow border around the front cover, and with the title, author and publisher on the spine in yellow.