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Baroness Orczy ( Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci) | First Editions
1865 - 1947
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contribute 'Real Ghost Stories' to 'PEARSON'S MAGAZINE' An Illustrated Monthly, in original cloth binding.
London: Geo. Newnes, 1898-9. Octavo. Vols. V and VII, complete. Uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial khaki cloth stamped in gilt, green and brown. Some light, expected wear but essentially clean copies with a little spine toning to the earlier volume, expert joint repair to later number. Includes the first appearance..... More
Eldorado. A Story of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 374. Folding plate as a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, blind stamped 'revolutionary mob motif' and laid on illustration to same. Black ink gift inscription to front..... More
The Elusive Pimpernel.
London: Hutchinson, 1908. [Historical Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.352; 32, advertisements dated Autumn 1908. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Contents clean, endpapers discreetly replaced, cloth rubbed to joints and extremities, one marginal soil mark to lower cover. A very good copy. A...... More
The Scarlet Pimpernel.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Historical Adventure] YELLOW JACKET NOVEL. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.160. Publisher's distinctive yellow illustrated paper covers priced at 9d. Lightly toned, with some minor spotting to preliminaries. Covers lightly worn, with some small losses to head and tail of spine, and a...... More
"Skin O' My Tooth" His Memoirs, by his Confidential Clerk.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1928]. [Crime Mysteries] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.307 [13]. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Gently toned throughout, with some heavier toning to edges. Spine toned, with light general wear to cloth. Very good. A collection of 12..... More
![Item #52674 Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel [in] The Grand Magazine. No....](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52674OrczyGrandMagazine.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1547505468)
Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel [in] The Grand Magazine. No. 143.
London: George Newnes, January 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 261-380; xi-xvi. With four double-sided photogravure plates. Publisher's colour-illustrated covers with advertisements to rear. Browned, as expected. A few chips from covers, and head and tail of spine. A large mended tear to rear..... More
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