A GAY ADVENTURER [THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL] BY JOHN BLAKENEY 1935 FIRST EDITION

[BLAKENEY, JOHN (John Montagu Orczy Barstow)]. A Gay Adventurer; Being the Biography of Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., known as "The Scarlet Pimpernel". London: John Long, n.d. [1935].

FIRST EDITION; cloth-bound, hardcover with dust jacket, octavo (19 x 12.5 x 3.5 cm), pp. 286, [16] publisher's catalogue. English text, with a foreword by Baroness Orczy. Bound in publisher's original plum cloth, half-title, illustrated with a frontispiece and diagrams. Supplied with the original and complete dust jacket. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers and contents well-preserved, the interior very lightly toned. Without previous ownership markings. Trivial shelf wear to dust jacket. A handsome copy.

Notes: First edition of the fictional biography of The Scarlet Pimpernel, written under the pseudonym John Blakeney either by Baroness Orczy herself (who provides a forward taking the whole enterprise seriously) or by her son. Scarce in the dust jacket.