Nisbet (Hume) The Great Secret, first edition, ex-library copy with stamp on title and endpapers, endpapers browned and soiled, some foxing, original cloth, damp-stained, extremities rubbed, spine a little faded, slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1895.

⁂ A bold attempt at addressing contemporary social issues, through the framework of occult and adventure themes, including two shipwrecks, castaways on a deserted island in the Antarctic, the discovery of a subterranean lost race resembling giant bats with human faces, super-weapons and supernatural forces, anarchism, a touch of vampiric cannibalism, and considerable low-level Victorian eroticism to top it off. Rare science-fiction novel.