Hume (Fergus) The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
£875
…a startling and realistic story of Melbourne social life
London, The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, n.d. [c.1888].
First UK edition, early issue, stating ‘two hundredth thousand’. 8vo. Advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers.
The famous Melbourne-based crime thriller by prolific author Fergus Hume, distinctly uncommon in this condition. A publishing phenomenon, sadly not something the author himself managed to cash in on as he had sold the publishing rights for a desultory amount to businessman Frederick Trischler, who went on to found the Hansom Cab Publishing Company in London.
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Ink name, dated 1888, to title-page; minor rubbing and marking to wrappers, but really an unusually good example.
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