Guy Boothby: 'Dr. Nikola's Experiment', London, Hodder & Sto...

Hammer

£30

Guy Boothby: 'Dr. Nikola's Experiment', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1899, 1st UK edition, 20 full page plates by Sydney Cowell as called for, vi,[2],340pp, original pictorial cloth gilt. Third of the four novels featuring Doctor Nikola, an occult adventurer who seeks immortality. The diabolical doctor, a precursor to Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, is considered by some to be the first fictional super villain. Dr. Nikola attempts to rejuvenate a senile man