The Elusive Pimpernel
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908.
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. Basis for the 1950 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film starring David Niven in the title role.
Item #48151
Baroness Orczy
birth name: Emmuska Orczy
born: 9/23/1865
died: 11/12/1947
Biography
Hungarian-born British novelist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, one of the greatest popular successes of the 20th century. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore