Two books bound together into one volume.

The Scarlet Pimpernel & The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Published in 1911 by Bernard Tauchnitz in Germany; a first edition thus of these classic tales. Rebound in modern 1/4 mottled leather fine binding over brown buckram. Four raised gilded spine bands with - gilt lettered red morocco leather spine label. Marbled endpapers. Octavo, 6.5” x 4.75.” Scarlet Pimpernel - 318 pages. Elusive Pimpernel - 318 pages.

OVERALL CONDITION: FAIR to GOOD

Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, 1865 – 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save French aristocrats from "Madame Guillotine" during the French Revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.

CONDITION: FAIR to GOOD

Slight spine lean with weakening hinges. Both hinges cracked. Leather is supple and unfaded. Corners bumped. Rubbed spine, spine tips and edges. Toned edges.

Scarlet Pimpernel

Front hinge reinforced, rubbing to and loss of paper to endpapers. Front blank flyleaves have tears and creases. 1/2” trimmed off top title page where there is former owner writing in ink. Some waviness/partial creasing to top corner.

Elusive Pimpernel

Endpapers removed. Toned pages. Some waviness/partial creasing to top corner. Several page tears. Rear hinge reinforced. Rubbing and loss to rear pastedown paper.

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