Pharos, The Egyptian, Boothby, Guy. Published by D Appleton and Company, New York, 1899. First American Edition. 12mo up to 7½” tall. 328pp. with rear ads. Brick red cloth boards with black titles to front and gilt spine titles. Rubbing to edges with a horizontal split to cloth at lower spine. Contents have very light toning and are otherwise in fine condition. A very good copy.
Guy Newell Boothby (1867-1905) 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, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies’ curses and supernatural revenge.
