New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Pp. 238; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, corners faintly bruised or rubbed, with a couple of tiny bumps to edges of boards; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, designed by Ellen Raskin, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip and top edge of front panel faded, both flaps slightly tape-marked at corners; free endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, New York, 1965. First U.S. edition. Loder p. 230. *Originally published as The Barrakee Mystery in 1929, by Hutchinson, London. This was Upfield's first detective story, and marked the debut of the part-Aboriginal police inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. This edition includes a new Introduction for the American market, containing an account of Upfield's meeting with 'a half-caste aborigine named Tracker Leon, a man of high intelligence and some education combined with surpassing bush lore' - the inspiration for the Bony character.

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Bookseller: Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 131933
Title: THE LURE OF THE BUSH
Author: Upfield, Arthur W
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1965

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