CASTRO'S LAST SACRAMENT AND OTHER STORIES. Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Company, Limited, 1900. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-347 [348: blank] [i] ii-vii [viii]: ads, original pictorial navy blue cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in light blue. First edition. Dorrington's first collection of short fiction (and first book?). The title story is criminous. Dorrington wrote sensational crime fiction as well as a fantastic adventure novel, OUR LADY OF THE LEOPARDS (1911). Miller and Macartney (1956), pp. 153-54. Early ownership signature on front paste-down. Spine panel browned, patchy fading to cloth, free endpapers tanned, else a very good copy. (#128231).
Price: $150.00
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