Sensational tales by the late Marcus Clarke

Published by permission of the author’s widow. Hobart : Walch Bros., 1886. Octavo, lettered wrappers (stained, chips to spine), pp. [xii]; 91; (5), advertisements to preliminaries and endpapers, the cover stain affecting with diminishing severity the first twenty or so pages, light handling marks, else a good copy. Contains the tales : The island of gold – New Guinea; The mind-reader’s curse; The dual existence; The mysterious coincidence (first published in 1872 with the title Human Repetends).

Australian Shilling Series. Simultaneously published in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Rare Hobart edition, five copies located on Trove, none others in the trade.