The Story of Wild Will Enderby

Some chips to paper on spine. Dampstain to rear cover. Dampstains to blank margins of some leaves. ; Second edition, published in the same year as the first edition. vii, [1], 260 [i.e. 258], [2 (blank)] pages. Pages 257-258 are misnumbered as 259-260. Printed papered card covers. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. A novel set in the Otago goldfields. "Far away in the interior of Otago there are three great mountain ranges, radiating northerly from the Lammerlaw - mother of mountains." - the opening sentence. "The favourable reception which this volume has received, both from the Public and the Press, necessitates, thus early, a reprint. I am thereby emboldened to avow my intention of pursuing yet further the story of 'Wild Will Enderby.'" - from the Preface to the Second Edition. "Goldfields story set in Dunedin featuring George W. Pratt, the 'senior partner' and Willl Enderby alias Harry Grey. Pyke's narrative with its sectional 'flash-back; to Enderby's Victorian past (excellent for the Australian market) and the final denouement in Australia, makes a brisk, plausible and readable narrative" - Bagnall 4748 (for the first edition). [Reference: Bagnall 4749; Burns, "New Zealand Novels and Novelists" p. 7 - "Life in the goldfields, Dunstan area, Otago"; Turnbull "Life on the Gold-Fields" 66 - "Later editions published with the title 'Wild Will Enderby a story of the New Zealand gold-fields.'"; c.f. Hocken p. 287 (fourth edition) - "Life on the goldfields."]

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Publisher: George Robertson

Year: 1873

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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