MADAME MIDAS: REALISTIC AND SENSATIONAL STORY OF AUSTRALIAN MINING LIFE. London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, 60, Ludgate Hill, E. C., 1888. Octavo, pp. [1-13] 14-222 [223-224: ads], publisher's pictorial gray wrappers printed in back. First edition. Although "ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND" is printed at the top edge of title page, this is the first printing. This Australian "western" with "scenes in Ballarat and Mellbourne, is a story of mining life, with theatrical associations ..." (Miller and Macartney, Australian Literature [1956]), p. 245). Hume's second novel, preceded by THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB, the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 258. Sadleir 3595. Wrappers worn at edges, spine ends chipped with loss of several letters of advertising copy printed thereon. Internally sound and clean. Quite scarce in the original wrappers. (#171034).
Price: $1,500.00
"ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND" at top edge of title page.