Toxar; A Romance

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark blue bevelled boards, titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. 289pp.+16pp. ads to rear. Light bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing to extremities, strong and handsome; internally clean with some marginal toning to page edges, top-edge untrimmed. A very good, strong copy with only light wear.

Published anonymously, and one of only three "romance" titles written by Professor Nicholson, presumably in spare moments of release from his day job, which was being a very notable and respected British economist. His output more normally consisted of (truncated) works on tariff reform, and influential titles like "Effects of Machinery on Wages", and "Tenant's Gain, Not Landlord's Loss", his works also include "A Revival of Marxism" in 1920, his last published work. When he wasn't writing studious treatises on the finer aspects of international economics and trade relations, he was immersing himself into the creation of complex bits of Ancient Greek weirdness involving torrid rivalries, doomed love, cursed gemstones, and mysterious oracular types holding forth on the wisdom of the gods. Found in Bleiler, but not easily found in acceptable condition. (Inventory #: 84528)