DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The Poison Belt. New York: Hodder and Stoughton; George H. Doran Company, [1913].8vo. (Lacking front free endpaper). 16 plates by Harry Rountree. Original gilt-lettered red cloth (spine slightly skewed); ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (extremities chipped, some soiling and spotting). Provenance: William St. Germain (ownership stamp on half-title).FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET not recorded by Green and Gibson. The Poison Belt is considered more of an ?extended short story than a novel, with a good central idea? and features the author?s science fiction counterpart to Holmes, Professor Challenger. Green and Gibson A38c.