Guy Boothby - &Apos;Farewell, Nikola&Apos;

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1901. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling novel about criminal mastermind Dr. Nikola, illustrated throughout. First edition. The fifth and final novel in the Doctor Nikola series. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. An entertaining work about the occult criminal mastermind, from the Doctor Nikola series following the anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. Doctor Nikola was a forerunner to Sax Rohmer's fictional villain Fu Manchu. Written by Guy Newell Boothby, a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. Illustrated by Harold Hume Piffard, a British artist, illustrator, and one of the first British aviators. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the boards with small splits to the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Harold Piffard. Good .

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