ARTABANZANUS: THE DEMON OF THE GREAT LAKE. AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE OF TASMANIA. ARRANGED FROM THE DIARY OF THE LATE OLIVER UBERTUS

by William M. Ferrar by William M. Ferrar

$1,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E. C., 1896. Octavo, pp. 1-8 1 2-314, original burgundy and green two-part cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. A hard book to define. As the subtitle suggests, this is an allegory, but the motif is of a lost race nature; i.e., a vast populous land under the ground that in some respects parallels various surface nations but differs in some

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