Author: SMEATON, Oliphant.
Title: A Mystery of the Pacific.
Description: London, Blackie 1899. Octavo publisher's illustrated red cloth printed in black and white and blocked in gilt; eight plates by Wal Paget. Covers a touch dusty, a few spots at the beginning but a rather good, bright copy. ¶ First edition of this Pacific lost race thriller - by the sometime editor of the Queensland Daily Northern Argus - which begins on board a blackbirder for the Queensland labour trade and ends in Nova Sicilia - a Roman offshoot in the western Pacific.
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers lost race fantasy c19th England Pacific Australia blackbirding
Title: A Mystery of the Pacific.
Description: London, Blackie 1899. Octavo publisher's illustrated red cloth printed in black and white and blocked in gilt; eight plates by Wal Paget. Covers a touch dusty, a few spots at the beginning but a rather good, bright copy. ¶ First edition of this Pacific lost race thriller - by the sometime editor of the Queensland Daily Northern Argus - which begins on board a blackbirder for the Queensland labour trade and ends in Nova Sicilia - a Roman offshoot in the western Pacific.
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers lost race fantasy c19th England Pacific Australia blackbirding
Price: AUD 200.00 = appr. US$ 138.37 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8417
- Book number: 8417