Author: Boothby, Guy; Wood, Stanley (illustrator).
Title: The Kidnapped President.
Description: London Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1902. 1st ed. Hardback octavo, no jacket, good condition, dark blue boards (gilt title & red design on cover & spine, frontispiece with tissue guide, four black & white plates includes frontispiece (one plate slightly loose), publisher adverts at rear, rough-cut edges, pages lightly toned, patchy toning on tissue guide & several pages, edges foxed & toned, light foxing endpapers & title page, rear inner hinge little split (pages firm), minor edgewear corner tips covers, protected by archival glassine plastic sleeve. 308 pp. This story is a mystery adventure of a naval officer in a South American republic and a missing president. Starts in Britain and continues in South America, then finishes in Britain. Written by Australian writer born at Glen Osmond South Australia in 1867. He lived mainly in England. He died in 1905 at Boscombe UK. He is best known for His Dr Nikola novels.

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