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Boothby, Guy [Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 - 26 February 1905) Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century]. Illustrated by J. Barnard Davis.
(Book #ID 107727)
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, London First Edition [1897] not dated. 1897.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Oxford blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, gilt framed paper insert to the front cover, bevelled edges. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Although an Australian national, Guy Boothby lived the majority of his life in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind; the character was a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was a personal friend and mentor of Boothby's, and George Orwell cites Boothby's books as influential, and remembered with affection. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, (viii), 293 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Light spotting to the closed text block edges else in Very Good bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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