Item #007577 The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman. Anthony Hope.
The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman

The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman

Garden City: International Collectors Library, c1960. A Very Good Hardcover.

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, minor aging to text-block edges. Minimal handling wear. Includes collector notes. No date c1960.

An adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed.

Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.




Item #007577

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