![]() Small mark and chip to front cover, a few tiny nicks, rust stains around staples, some nicks and very light soiling to pages. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Any copy under the 100,000 mark is exceedingly difficult to find, especially in such condition. ![]() Hundreds of thousands of copies would be sold by the end of the century. They printed 25,000 copies a month from July onwards, this being the third, September impression. ![]() The author foolishly sold the copyright for a paltry sum to the businessman Frederick Trischler, who travelled to London and founded the Hansom Cab Publishing Company in 1887. The novel, one of the greatest and most successful of all detective stories, had met with enormous enthusiasm when first published in Australia in 1886. First UK edition, earliest practically obtainable impression with "seventy-fifth thousand" on the title page. ![]()
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