first edition
1924, 1930 · Boston
by Sabatini, Rafael
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924, 1930. First revised edition. Very good in black cloth covered boards with red-orange text stamping on the spine with a short closed tear to the upper edge of the spine. In a good dust jacket with the original $1.00 price intact but with the upper 1.25" of the spine area missing as well as a 1.5" chip in the center of the spine area and rubbed at the folds. Sabatini was a prolific author and brilliant linguist (6 languages). This was his last of 31 novels. His most famous were Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922), and The Sea Hawk (1915). (Inventory #: TB13573)