Doctor Nikola

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1896. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Stanley L. Wood. A third edition of this work about Doctor Nikola, an occultist criminal seeking world domination, in the publisher's original pictorial binding. Dr. Nikola was a forerunner to Sax Rohmer's fictional villain Fu Manchu, and sought world domination using Tibetan processes to revive… Read more about this item

Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Pen inscription to front free end paper and pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

London: Ward, lock, 1896. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, with 6 pages of undated ads at back. Sixteen glossy illustrations plus numerous vignette illustrations throughout. First edition of the first book in the Doctor Nikola series.

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… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited., c1896. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Stanley L. Wood. The first book in Guy Boothby's thrilling Dr Nikola series. A scarce early edition of the first book from the Dr Nikola series. Undated. Dated by copies held at the British Library. In the… Read more about this item

(London: Ward, Lock: 1897) Fourth Edition. Dark blue cloth, bevelled boards, with coloured pictorial pastedowns of Nikola with his black cat on front and on spine (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 322 and 4 publisher’s advertisements. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood. Top edge gilt. Head and foot of spine rubbed and worn; corner chip to pastedown on front;… Read more about this item

London: Ward Lock, 1896 navy blue cloth with gilt to spine, paste down colour plate of the Doctor and his cat to cover and spine, rubbed joints and ends, short splitting to tail, light spine lean, name and book shop stamp to fep, light finger soiling to endpapers and closed edges, 322+6pp adverts, frontis + illustrations in text. Second Edition.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stanley L Wood. Not dated - circa late 1890s - early 1900s. Edition and printing not known. In good dark navy bevel-edged boards, with colour illustrations of man with black cat inlaid to front and back strip and gilt titles to… Read more about this item

Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood. Front hinge cracked. Blue boards have rubbing to edges. Spine creased and somewhat faded. Cover decoration bright. Endpapers age toned. Previous owner's name label affixed to front pastedown. Some light brown larger spots to pages - mainly at front and back. With custom made clamshell box.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited , 1896. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Stanley L Wood . The scarce first edition of this popular novel from the Doctor Nikola series by Guy Boothby. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Illustrated with… Read more about this item

London: Ward Lock & Co., 1896. 3rd edition. Very Good. small octavo. hardback in decorated cloth 322pp., frontis., b/w pls., A Doctor Nicola novel. Illustrations by Stanley Wood. Cloth rather worn, a little shaken, & bookplate on front paste-down o/w VG reading copy

London: Ward, Lock & Co 1896 First (Colonial) Editrion cr.8vo viii, 322pp + 6pp Catalogue, 1896 VG original tan cloth, moderate shelf wear, a solid copy, internally very clean throughout, with occasional mild to moderate foxing, tissue-guard intact, profusely illustrated by Stanley Wood, and with a six-page catalogue of new and recent titles. This is a copy of the Colonial… Read more about this item

Ward Lock, 1898 blue cloth, ills on front board partially torn and missing, ills. by Stanley Wood,. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Good.

Ward, Lock & Co., London, c. 1930's. 192 pp, pages browned, lower right-hand corner of upper wrapper creased, else very good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers.