A Maker of Nations by Guy Boothby - 1900

Ward, Lock & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No edition remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Rear free endpaper torn in half.. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

GB: Ward, Lock, 1900. Blue decorated cloth. Undated 10p. cat. Rear cover bit marked.. 1st Edition. Hardback. G++/No DW.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. First Edition Paperback Issue. Trade Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy (early owner's name) in edge-worn printed red paper covers (no effect on lettering). The text is clean/unmarked.

World Mystery Press, 2010. Paperback. New. 354 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.89 inches.

London, Ward, Lock, 1900.. 342+[10]pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt design. Outer edges of front and rear boards a little water-damaged. Frontis. + 7 full-page plates by Gordon Browne.. First edition.

(London: Ward, Lock: 1900) First Edition. Gilt decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 342 and 10 publisher's advertisements. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. First Edition. Two ownership stamps, one over the other, on the recto of the frontispiece, and with the number '33' at head of front fixed endpaper and at head of title-page. A good copy.

London: Ward, Lock & company, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. Very good in blue cloth covered boards with light edgewear, endpapers browned, front hinge just starting.

London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1900. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.342; [10], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine, bevelled edges. Eight halftone illustrations by Browne, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Archival repairs to pg.55, archival tape applied to plate opposite pg.83, toning to endpapers and textblock edges, wear to crown and base of spine, bumping to corners. Very good. Boothby was an Australian novelist and writer, noted for his prolific amount of writing which was published in a variety of magazines towards the end of the 19th Century.