Orczy (Baroness) The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first edition, 1933; and 11 others (12)

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First edition

Orczy (Baroness) The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, vignette illustration to title, ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and half-title, scattered light spotting and soiling (worse to endpapers), lower hinge cracked and upper starting, spine faded, slight shelf-lean, 1933 Austin (Alfred) Love's Widowhood and Other Poems, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Theodore Water with the cordial sympathy of the author" to half-title, photographic plates, 2 pp. advertisements at end, endpapers and half-title browned, some cracking at gutter, marginal toning and a few marks or spots, else a bright copy, spine darkened, 1889, first editions, original cloth, spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped, a few marks and stains; and 10 others, including a signed first edition of F. V. Morley's "East South East", (1929), 8vo & 4to (12)

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