Includes: A Prince of Swindlers. Inscribed by the author on verso of the title page, to "David Kimber. [c.1900]. * The Kidnapped President. 1902. * Bushigrams. Blue decorated cloth. [1897]. * Across the World for a Wife. 1898. * A Maker of Nations. 1900. * Love Made Manifest. Residue from removed bookplate on front pastedown.[1899]. * Long Live the King! 1900. * The Lust of Hate. 1898. * The Red Rat's Daughter. 1899. * Pharos the Egyptian. 1899. * A Two-Fold Inheritance. 1903. * Doctor Nikola. 1896. * My Indian Queen. 1901. * My Strangest Case. 1902. 14 volumes, each in blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt.

Guy Newell Boothby (1867-1905) was born in Adelaide and after education there and in London, returned and became private secretary to the Mayor of Adelaide. About 1894 he went to live in London, and began his career as a highly successful popular novelist.