first edition
1889 · London and Melbourne
by Russell, Percy
London and Melbourne: E. A. Petherick & Co., 1889. Octavo, original bevel-edged olive green cloth, advertisements printed on endpapers. First edition. Four tales (all but one of novelette length) plus half a dozen nonfiction sketches. Stories of adventure down under, hidden treasure, exotic landscape. An intercalated document, "An Austral Theocracy," is a call for governmental social engineering. Not in Miller. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#114071) (Inventory #: 114071)