Doctor Nikola. order Guy Boothby. First Edition. Later Printing. 1896.

Bevel-edged blue boards w/ illustrated frontispiece and inlaid title. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. London. Ca. 1896.

Bumping to the spine ends order and corners. Rubbing to the spine edges. Wear to the exterior of the frontispiece on the spine. Pages are clean. Illustrated throughout by Stanley L. Wood. Rear binding partially cracked, still solid. Advertisment's at rear.


Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu. Friends with Rudyard Kipling and his books were remembered by the famous George Orwell.