Boothby, Guy.

Empire Journal.

1896. Hardcover. Contains the first appearance of two Boothby stories, "Steeplechase for a Wife" which is complete in two parts & "A Crime of the Under-seas", incomplete in 11 chapters. "Crime" was eventually published in 1905. Other serial articles on Klondike gold & association football. Vol. 1, 2. Preston, 1896-97. Vol. 1, no. 1 Dec. 15th, 1896, 225pp. Vol. 2, no. 11 Nov. 6, 1897, 528pp. Ills throughout. 1/4 calf + buck boards, slt. bumped o/w vgc. BMC states this was all that was published. Not in Miller & McCartney or Andrews' Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Very good. Item #5744

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