The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
Thursday, 16 November - Thursday, 14 December 2023
O’Dell Stackpool - Merciful or Merciless
Estimate $50 - $75
Realised: $25 plus premium
Lot Details
Stackpool O’Dell Phrenological Institute, London, 1887. Second edition, viii, 455pp, 8vo cloth, lacks front endpaper, lean to spine. A little-known novel first published by Unwin to little success the previous year and here republished by the author. A long section of the novel is set in Auckland, which O'Dell had visited lecturing on phrenology in 1867.
