First English translation, first printing. 128pp, with black and white plate illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on red relief on spine. 8vo. Boards gently rubbed at edges, gently rounded at corners and spine ends. A little spotting on text block edges. Offset tanning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, crisp and tight. In its original dust wrapper, faded and shelf worn, lightly bumped along upper edges and slightly sunned over spine. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Atlantis and the Giants examines the period of the Giants, whom Saurat argues were the older, powerful race of human who preceded current mankind and lived on the lost continents of Atlantis and Mu and whose civilisation was destroyed an ice-covered moon falling from orbit to Earth. There is a strong focus on Tiwanaku/Atlantis, where Saurat argues the eight foot stone idols are life-sized replicas of Giants, remembered now only in myth and legend. Saurat (1890-1958) was a respected Anglo-French literary critic and philosopher, a position which gave his fringe thinking on prehistory more credibility than most.
