"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
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 sequel to 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' where French agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is as crafty as ever, but Sir Percy Blakeney is more than a match for his arch-enemy. Meanwhile the beautiful Marguerite remains wholly devoted to Sir Percy, her husband. Cue more swashbuckling adventures as the elusive Pimpernel attempts to smuggle French aristocrats out of the country to safety. Item #62724
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