The Island Queen; or, Dethroned By Fire and Water: A Tale of the Southern Hemisphere

Hardcover. Original deep green cloth with 3-colour pictorial cover and cover title printed in black on gilt; spine lettering green on gilt, with 2-colour spine vignette. n.d. (1885). Copy states “Sixth Thousand”. 261 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Ink inscription of front free endpaper (1893); binding cracked but firm; front hinge started under endpaper; enpapers and pages browned, and lateral tear to one illustration only; still a surprisingly tight copy with pretty bright cloth and decorations and otherwise clean interior. Rare.