Denis Dent. A Novel.; With a Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1904. Harrison Fisher. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [vi] viii, 324 [2 blank] : coloured frontispiece : grey cloth boards stamped in purple with purple and gilt lettering.
Previous owner's neat details on front free endpaper; light darkening to spine; wear to extremities; spine ends pushed; block edges tanned and a little soiled; very faint foxing to endpapers. Good. Item #8371
English-born Hornung (a brother-in-law of Arthur Conan Doyle) visited Australia between 1884 and 1886 and many of his works have Australian content. The novel is set mainly in Melbourne and Ballarat, Victoria during the gold rushes.
Price: $50.00