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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 pastedown. Slightly shaken, with a little toning and spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Spine a little sunned, with some light general wear to cloth. Very good. The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado; the still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the the young Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The mysterious Sir Percy Blakeney, (the Scarlet Pimpernel) is the only one daring enough to attempt to liberate the little prince, and Sir Percy must take on Robespierre's agents, the scheming Citizen Chauvelin, in a suspenseful blend of action and political intrigue, recounted with captivating period detail. Item #66557
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