The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

£395 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

The further adventures of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, aka Sir Percy Blakeney, during the French Revolution. This time set against a backdrop of the Thermidorian Reaction in 1794, again interweaving historic fact with fiction via the real life figures of Thérésa Cabarrus, and Jean-Lambert Tallien. This is the sixth Scarlet Pimpernel novel, scarce in the original dust-jacket. First edition, 8vo; mild foxing mostly to extremities of text block, gift inscription to front free endpaper dated November 1922, original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket by Gordon Robinson, wear to corners and near head of spine, with section of loss to upper panel affecting the 'TR' in 'TRIUMPH', 2 light vertical creases to upper panel, some minor marking.

• Binding: Hardcover

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