For Lust of Gold: a Romance; Being a Narrative of the Adventures of Francis Boulmer, Anthony Goddard, and Certain Others, in Their Search for the Golden City of Manoa by Watson, Aaron - 1892

Walter Scott Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Heavy cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting, pages are loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Stains and markings to some pages. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine with crushing to ends. Wear marks overall.

London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The Brotherhood Library. Undated [1893]. Original horizontally ribbed green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; all edges gilt. Lightly scuffed on spine ends, a few light marks, very good. Tipped in after title page: a list of volumes in the Brotherhood Library (this title being no 114 out of 144). Undated publisher's catalogue at end carrying details of editions published in 1893. A wild boys' adventure story featuring Sir Walter Raleigh and his expedition to find the lost city of Manoa -- more usually known as El Dorado..

London: W. Scott, 1892. First edition(?). Hardcover. Previous owners name stamped to the inside of front board. Pencil inscriptions to front free end paper. Mild rubbing and fraying to outer corners of boards. Very mild rubbing to head and foot of spine. Else pages clean and binding tight. Very good.. Hardcover octavo in blue cloth boards. viii, 312 pages, b/w frontispiece ; 20 cm. "The Evergreen Library"-front cover.

London: Walter Scott Limited no date [c.1892]. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. [Same binding, the earliest?, described in Locke: gold gilt lettered/decorated green cloth with bevelled edges, top edge git]. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy page 224 "Boys' lost race adventure story set in Elizabethan times of the discovery of the city of Manoa"]. Reginald 14913. 312 pages plus 8 pages of ads, top edge gilt, illustrated with six black and white plates [including the frontispiece]. Owner's inscription [dated 1898], chipping to the margins of some leaves [with upper corner off one of them], else Good to Very Good copy [binding just starting, externally VG].; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312+8 pages .LR5/6E

London: Walter Scott, Ltd, 1892. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A scarce work from Aaron Watson, with illustrations throughout. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. A narrative of the adventures of Francis Boulmer, Anthony Goddard, and others in their search for the golden city of Manoa. Written by Aaron Watson, an English author and journalist. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting. Good