Author: Boothby, Guy; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator); Sanctuary, Luke (introduction).
Title: In Strange Company: A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas.
Description: London Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1900. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, good plus condition, red boards (cover & spine embossed with gilt title), four black & white illustrations (includes frontispiece with tissue guard), pages lightly toned, edges lightly foxed (few small spots), minimal foxing endpapers, spine ends little bumped, spine little faded, few light stains covers, owner's printed name label inside front cover. 300 pp. This historical crime fiction novel by Guy Boothby is set in North Queensland with a pearler as the hero. The novel travels to the Isle of Wight, London, Argentine Republic (Argentina), Chili (Chile), Tahiti, Batavia, and back to London. The story centres on Marmaduke Plowden who has embezzled 200,000 pounds from his clients in London, and fled to Chile. The first novel by the Australian writer, copyright 1896. This copy is a later edition that has four illustrations including the frontispiece, not six as mentioned in the earliest copies. (No date, but about 1900: Latest Ethel Turner book in Ward list, Three Little Maids, 1900. This copy has an embossed red cloth cover with gilt title. 12p Ward Lock booklist at rear.). ISBN: 000612

Keywords: crime fiction, australian fiction, earth sciences, pearls, pearling, britain, london, isle of wight, south america, chile, pacific, tahiti, queensland, thursday island, collectible, collectable 000612


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