Title:  The Dark Horse

Author: Nat Gould

Publisher: Routledge, London

Date Printed: 1898

Description: Scarce original pictorial yellowback hardback. 288 pages.  Adverts to endpapers. Light wear and rubbing to boards (see pictures). Pencil ownership signature to title page. Binding sound and square. Scarce. 

Nathaniel Gould (1857-1919) was a horseracing correspondent for many newspapers. Born in England, he spenteleven years as a journalist in Australia. He wrote several sensational and racy novels, many featuring the Australian outback, horseracing, and gambling.

Provenance: We have recently acquired a large private collection of yellowback books. These books were published in the Victorian era and aimed to provide entertaining reading at a relatively cheap price. They have yellow boards and colourful chromolithographic illustrated covers. Although produced in large numbers, they were regarded as disposable at the time, and survivals can be relatively scarce.

We take great care in the packaging of all our books to ensure that they arrive as described. 

Please view our other books now on sale at our ebay shop, Goodman Books. We have over 5,000 fiction and non-fiction books listed for sale at all prices, specialising in Modern First Editions, Signed Books, Detective Fiction, and Supernatural Fiction. We add new stock regularly to ensure that we always have new and interesting books for sale.