Fergus Hume - Miss Mephistopheles - 1890 Third edition published by F. V. White

Third edition. 316 pages, including ads. In yellowback or illustrated glazed board format. 

The book is firmly bound having been sympathetically re-backed, the original spine strip re-laid over similarly toned paper, the top corner of the front board has snapped off, and the boards are otherwise chipped, rubbed, grubby and marked. The text block is slightly toned, foxed and marked, with minor damage and creasing to some page edges, and a W. H. Smith blind-stamp to the front endpaper. 

Australian crime fiction, set in Melbourne among the dissipated elements who frequent its boarding houses and seedier nighttime venues. It is quite an uncommon Hume title.