Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. John Taine's "The Purple Sapphire" is the sixth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. THIS IS A SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION with beautiful original illustrations by Virgil Finlay. It was a stone of wisdom and prophecy. For twelve years, the British Secret Service ransacked India for General Wedderburn's kidnapped daughter, Evelyn...