Vachell, Horace Annesley. — The Shadowy Third.

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., n.d. (ca.1905), (6),112,(8) pag. (incl. wrappers), adverts, printed in two columns, original illustrated wrappers. = Pearson's Sixpenny novels. Rare early edition, this particular edition not listed on WorldCat and not found online. The first editon was published by John Murray in 1902 under the title The Shadowy Third. A Study of Temperament. The Pearson Sixpenny Novels series was a collection of affordable paperback novels published by the company at the turn of the twentieth century. The series was launched in the late 1890s as a way to make literature more accessible to a wider audience, particularly to the working-class readers who couldn't afford more expensive hardcover books, essentially popularising paperback fiction.