A Veldt Official

A Novel of Circumstance


First published in London in 1895 by Ward, Lock, & Bowden with 2 illustrations

Not published in America

The first edition is rare today

An ad for A VELDT OFFICIAL in the April 5, 1895 issue of The Bookseller

Copies of the 1895 Ward, Lock first British edition

I do not own a copy of the first edition yet, as they are tough to find in collectible condition

Frontispiece for the British first edition

Title-page of the British first edition

The other illustration within the book

An ad for THE CURSE OF CLEMENT WAYNFLETE at the end of the first edition of A VELDT OFFICIAL

Below: the title-page in the 1896 printing

My copy of the 1898 printing

Brian Stringer owns an 1898 printing in the same cloth binding as the 1895 and 1896 printings

The title-page in my 1898 copy

Brian Stringer owns an 1896 Colonial Edition