Author: Guy Boothby
Title: The Fascination of the King
Description: London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition and in a pictorial binding of Boothby's adventure fiction, illustrated by Stanley L. Wood. An adventure fiction inspired by the Far East.Guy Boothby (1867-1905) was a prolific Australian writer best known for his Dr Nikola series, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a Gothic tale about Egypt and the supernatural. Boothby was a friend of Rudyard Kipling's, and wrote ghost stories, Gothic horror, science fiction and crime fiction, with particular interest placed on his supernatural works.In a pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.A first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart; spine is a touch cocked with bumping to the head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Stanley L. Wood. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Guy Boothby Adventure Fiction Doctor Nikola The Fascination of the King Adventure Fiction Stanley L. Wood
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Title: The Fascination of the King
Description: London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition and in a pictorial binding of Boothby's adventure fiction, illustrated by Stanley L. Wood. An adventure fiction inspired by the Far East.Guy Boothby (1867-1905) was a prolific Australian writer best known for his Dr Nikola series, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a Gothic tale about Egypt and the supernatural. Boothby was a friend of Rudyard Kipling's, and wrote ghost stories, Gothic horror, science fiction and crime fiction, with particular interest placed on his supernatural works.In a pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.A first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart; spine is a touch cocked with bumping to the head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Stanley L. Wood. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Guy Boothby Adventure Fiction Doctor Nikola The Fascination of the King Adventure Fiction Stanley L. Wood
Price: GBP 99.00 = appr. US$ 141.37 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 766R34
- Book number: 766R34
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