(#165283) THE ADVENTURE OF THE BROAD ARROW. AN AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE. Morley Roberts.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BROAD ARROW. AN AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-276 [277-280: blank] note: first and last two leaves are blanks], eight inserted plates with illustrations by. A. D. McCormick, original decorated dark gray buckram, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. "Australian adventure story in which two lost prospectors stumble upon a tribe of primitive white people descended from a group of convicts who had escaped some generations earlier. Definable as lost race; there is also a brief reference to a race of miniature cave-dwellers (who had been wiped out by the white community). The lost race part of the story is rather sketchily treated, but Roberts, like Arthur W. Upfield after him, is well able to evoke the vastness of the Australian continent and, towards the end, the alien, otherworldly character of a river that disappears underground." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 184. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 1043. Australian and New Zealand "Lost Race" Fiction in the Collection of Stuart Teitler (private list), p. 3. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 687. Not in Larnach or Blackford, et al. Miller, pp. 443; 644. Early owner's signature dated 1897 on the front free endpaper. Cloth lightly rubbed at corner tips, free endpapers darkened, a fine copy with bright cover stamping. An uncommon book, especially in nice condition. (#165283).

Price: $850.00

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