All in the Dark.

First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. vi, 299, [1, blank]; iv, 290 pp. Library binding of modern red cloth, gilt lettering to spines on black morocco labels. London, Bentley. 

Rare in commerce, last sold at auction in 1962. 

All in the Dark is a satire on the Victorian bourgeois obsession with spiritualism which was first serialised in the Dublin University Magazine. It did not very popular, it being a departure from his usual style, he would later write: “I am half sorry I wrote “All in the Dark” with my own name to it”.   

Ex-library copy, with de-accession stamps to title pages of both volumes from Birmingham Library. 

Stock Code: 240993