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The Black Drop
London, Trischler and Company, 1891. Cloth. A very scarce tale of revenge by Hume Nisbet, following a convict who returns to London from Australia. A very scarce work.The third thousadnth.'The Black Drop' follows a man name Paul Langly, who returns to London after having been sent as a criminal to Australia. He returns to his native country, endeavouring to seek out a woman he had been having an affair and who had set him up for forgery. By Hume Nisbet, a Scottish novelist who wrote much about Australia.Six pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints. A few minor marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional spot, mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Rooke BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 941P28
GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 229.75 US$ 261.19 | JP¥ 37232]
Catalogue: English Literature Pre 1900
Keywords: The Black Drop hume nisbet paul langly australia hume nisbet None
A Colonial Tramp. Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea.
Colonial Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxii, 468 (last blank), 16 (advertisements); title page vignette, 41 b/w. plates, 11b/w. illustrations in text, later half leather binding, green title label on spine, title lettered in gilt on label, raised bands chips to edges of a couple of pages, institution stamp on edges of a few pages, bookplate on front endpaper, good sound copy. London; George Bell And Sons; 1898 (issued for circulation in India and the Colonies only). Hume Nisbet (1849 - 1923) first arrived in Melbourne at the age of sixteen, later he returned to Britain to study art. He became a prolific book illustrator and was commissioned by Cassell and Co. to visit Australia and New Guinea, contributing articles and sketches for Cassell's picturesque Australasia (1887-89). As well as "A Colonial Tramp", his autobiographical work he published some 17 novels.
Time BooksellersProfessional sellerBook number: 106615
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 84.75 US$ 96.21 | £UK 72 | JP¥ 13715]
Keywords: australian history new south wales new guinea western australia victoria queensland
A Dream of Freedom, romance of South America.
London, F.V. White 1902. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in ochre, white and black; xii,318pp, frontispiece. Some minor browning and signs of use but rather a good copy. Tipped in the front opening is an original photo of Nisbet dated 1901 and a notice of this book.
¶ Only edition and rare. And rare in more than one sense. It is the only novel that I know of set in the William Lane led utopia of New Australia and Cosme in Paraguay; in fact it is one of very few contemporary books on the settlement (the only other that I know of is the vitriolic 'Where Socialism Failed'; 1912). Likewise it is one of very few novels set in an actual utopia - or at least an attempt at one. Nisbet's preface is a mildly petulant jab at his critics and sounds a weary note about having written more than forty novels without repeating himself. As his first novel (set in New Guinea) appeared only 14 years earlier it's a not unimpressive achievement on some level. The author of the newspaper notice inserted at the front was alarmed at the implied threat that this could be his last novel and must have been relieved as more novels appeared later the same year. But there weren't many more novels - and they petered out in 1905. In the same month (January 1902) that the freshly widowed Nisbet dates his preface he married a 73 year old widow - 20 years his senior. I wonder whether he was writing with the exhaustion of a new burden undertaken or the release from financial strain.
¶ Only edition and rare. And rare in more than one sense. It is the only novel that I know of set in the William Lane led utopia of New Australia and Cosme in Paraguay; in fact it is one of very few contemporary books on the settlement (the only other that I know of is the vitriolic 'Where Socialism Failed'; 1912). Likewise it is one of very few novels set in an actual utopia - or at least an attempt at one. Nisbet's preface is a mildly petulant jab at his critics and sounds a weary note about having written more than forty novels without repeating himself. As his first novel (set in New Guinea) appeared only 14 years earlier it's a not unimpressive achievement on some level. The author of the newspaper notice inserted at the front was alarmed at the implied threat that this could be his last novel and must have been relieved as more novels appeared later the same year. But there weren't many more novels - and they petered out in 1905. In the same month (January 1902) that the freshly widowed Nisbet dates his preface he married a 73 year old widow - 20 years his senior. I wonder whether he was writing with the exhaustion of a new burden undertaken or the release from financial strain.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7949
AUD 850.00 [Appr.: EURO 479.25 US$ 545.2 | £UK 407.25 | JP¥ 77716]
Keywords: literature fiction utopia South America Australia c19th c20th New Australia Cosme William Lane
Eight Bells, a tale of the sea and of the cannibals of New Guinea
London, Ward and Downey. 1889, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, vi, [2], 334 pages. Frontispiece and nine other plates by Hume Nisbet. Name and date 1890 on front endpaper, gutters neatly reinforced with Japanese tissue paper. Rare first edition. Good.
Tinakori BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 011863
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 263.75 | £UK 224 | JP¥ 42764]
Catalogue: Australia
The Land of the Hibiscus Blossom; a yarn of the Papuan Gulf.
London, Ward & Downey 1888. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in colour and gilt (tips worn, cloth a bit dull and discoloured); 23 full page ills by Nisbet. A second hand but quite acceptable copy.
¶ First edition (only? there was an 1889 colonial issue and a 'new edition' in 1896 but I suspect these are re-issues of the same sheets) of Nisbet's first novel (of some 40) and one of the earliest novels of New Guinea from first hand experience. Nisbet insists on his accuracy of detail and was often criticised for proselytising at the expense of humour and excitement but his ideas have come into their own: "this is not a missionary tale, but the words of one who believes as ... Ruskin believes, that what the savage gains from religion and civilisation is not equivalent to his own beliefs when left alone." Despite dire warnings that a trip to New Guinea was near suicide, and unlike most of his contemporaries and followers, New Guinea to Nisbet was not a dark, savage and desperate land and his bright and cheery sobriquet of a title shows a generous response and appreciative humanity but lousy marketing skills.
¶ First edition (only? there was an 1889 colonial issue and a 'new edition' in 1896 but I suspect these are re-issues of the same sheets) of Nisbet's first novel (of some 40) and one of the earliest novels of New Guinea from first hand experience. Nisbet insists on his accuracy of detail and was often criticised for proselytising at the expense of humour and excitement but his ideas have come into their own: "this is not a missionary tale, but the words of one who believes as ... Ruskin believes, that what the savage gains from religion and civilisation is not equivalent to his own beliefs when left alone." Despite dire warnings that a trip to New Guinea was near suicide, and unlike most of his contemporaries and followers, New Guinea to Nisbet was not a dark, savage and desperate land and his bright and cheery sobriquet of a title shows a generous response and appreciative humanity but lousy marketing skills.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9116
AUD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 104.5 US$ 118.66 | £UK 88.75 | JP¥ 16915]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th New Guinea travel Australia Ruskin thrillers
The revenge of Valerie: a romance of British Columbia
London, F.V. White, 1900. Used - Good. Good hardback in decorated black cloth 1st ed. Frontis.by M. Nisbet. Lacks front free end paper; half-title page & back fep browned; 1" damage to back hinge; spine a little faded & bumped, with slightly dull gilt lettering. Photo:.
Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional sellerBook number: BOOKS097899I
GBP 43.40 [Appr.: EURO 51.25 US$ 58.13 | JP¥ 8286]
Where Art Begins.
First Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv, 232; frontispiece, 27 b/w illustrations throughout, index; original illustrated boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, chipping to edges of boards, bumping to corners, spine discoloured, minor marks to boards, presentation plate to front endpaper, pages uncut, a good copy. London, Chatto & Windus, 1892.
Time BooksellersProfessional sellerBook number: 86916
AUD 67.00 [Appr.: EURO 38 US$ 42.97 | £UK 32.25 | JP¥ 6126]
Keywords: art artists photography photographic images illustration technology
Where Art Begins
London, Chatto & Windus, 1892. First. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey decorated boards. Wear to extremities. Rubbing and marks to boards. Cracked hinges. Slight browning to page edges. Good.
The Victoria BookshopProfessional sellerBook number: 5001493
GBP 13.23 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 17.72 | JP¥ 2526]
Catalogue: Non Fiction
Keywords: ART
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