G. Firth Scott

The Last Lemurian

London: James Bowden, 1898. First Edition. cloth. 8vo; 339pp; original pictorial-green cloth lettered in gilt and stamped in red, white and black; first edition; no jacket as issued. Light rubbing to spine-ends and fore-corners; ownership inscription neatly written on FFEP; general some toning and foxing.  First edition of this late-Victorian lost-race novel set in the Australian interior, in which the protagonist encounters the remnants of an ancient Lemurian civilization, reflecting the fin-de-siẽcle fascination with speculative fiction and vanished worlds at the far edges of Empire.. Item #148

Price: $498.67