The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
by Baroness Orczy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company,, 1919. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 313pp. Original red cloth with gilt title at spine and blind titles on front. Covers slightly marked and dusty with some slight fading at spine, fore-edge lightly foxed, otherwise a slightly used, very good copy. Ink name to pastedown. No dust jacket. No date on title page, but printing code at rear: F170.3.19
Synopsis
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel. It contains eleven short stories that detail Sir Percy Blakeney's adventures in rescuing aristocrats and citizens alike from the fate of the guillotine.
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- Bookseller
- Robin Summers Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C206890
- Title
- The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
- Author
- Baroness Orczy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Pages
- 313
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- Gilt
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