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HOPE, Anthony (1863-1933). The Prisoner of Zenda. Bristol and London: J.W. Arrowsmith and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, [1894].
8vo. Original gilt-lettered burgundy cloth (spine darkened, front hinge over-opened after title, corners rubbed); folding cloth chemise and morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with this title not listed on rear advertisement lead. Hope’s famed swashbuckling novel which was the basis for the 1937 film with Ronald Coleman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Madeleine Carroll. Cox I:535; Muri, pp. 126-9.