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A Maker of Nations by Boothby, Guy - 1900

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A Maker of Nations by Boothby, Guy - 1900

A Maker of Nations

by Boothby, Guy

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London, New York, Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1900. A late-career mystery by the popular Australian novelist. [Hubin, p. 41]. This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition, published a year after the American issue. Beveled blue cloth binding with titling and decorations (rampant lion) in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 342 pages and a ten-page publisher catalog in the rear. Frontis illustration and seven others within by Gordon Browne. Previous-owner label on the front paste-down. Light rubbing to the margins; spotting to the top page ends. In an archival plastic protector.. First UK Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Browne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Gordon Browne
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Edition First UK Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
  • Place of Publication London, New York, Melbourne
  • Date Published 1900
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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A Maker of Nations

A Maker of Nations

by Guy Boothby

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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.
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A Maker of Nations

by Guy Boothby

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London: Ward Lock Red cloth, pocket edition, b/w frontispiece. Title page torn, name on flyleaf, cloth bit marked, few thumbmarks. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.
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A Maker of Nations (Appletons' Town and Country Library No. 280)

by Boothby, Guy

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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.
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A Maker of Nations: From the Creator of Dr. Nikola

by Guy Boothby

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

by BOOTHBY,, Guy

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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.
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A Maker of Nations

by Boothby, Guy

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(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.
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A Maker of Nations

by BOOTHBY, Guy

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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.
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A Maker of Nations

A Maker of Nations

by BOOTHBY, Guy (1867-1905) [BROWNE, Gordon, illustrator]

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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.
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