Hawthorne (Julian) John Parmelee’s Curse
£120
London, Cassell, [1886].
First edition. 8vo. 16pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, dated ‘3 G. 8.86’.
A creative and productive author, Julian Hawthorne never sadly quite lived up to the literary pedigree inherited from his father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, but his fiction is engaging and often incorporates the sort of weird and sci-fi elements on which later subgenre fiction was predicated. This novel sees the author dallying rather with crime fiction, including mob-like figures, a bank robbery and the curse of opium addiction…
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Small ownership stamp to front pastedown; slight darkening to covers with light mark to upper cover, but overall VG+.
Hubin
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