In the Shadow of the Guillotine; comprising Scaramouche, The Marquis of Carabas, The Lost King by Rafael Sabatini - 1956

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. NF. 1956. 1st Printing. Hardcover. First printing of this edition bound in orange cloth with gold letteri ng. Near fine condition. Small rubs to the book's corners. Toning to t he pages. Omnibus edition contains "Scaramouche", "The Marquis of Cara bas", and "The Lost King". No dust jacket. .

Hutchinson, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1955. First Edition. 415 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with large tears, chipping and creasing.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1956 (c.1955). 1st U.S. edition? (see note). Hardcover. [solid book, light soiling to page edges, small tear at bottom of ffep, a couple of tiny nicks in cloth at edge of front cover; jacket has been nibbled at by some insect, apparently, resulting in several holes along the front hinge, another at right-hand side of front panel, various other small tears and nicks, still reasonably presentable in new jacket protector]. Third volume in the "Omnibus Edition" of Sabatini's works, containing three books tied together by their French Revolution background. (Note that the despite the Boston imprint, the copyright page states "Printed in Great Britain," and the jacket bears no printed price.) .

London: Hutchinson, 1955 omnibus edition on rice paper, rubber name stamp to fep but no other markings, spine titling dulled, 341 + 321 + 415pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press Cambridge, 1956.. Omnibus Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: bright reddish-orange cloth; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Val Biro. The three novels presented here as an omnibus edition are not a series, but they are connected by a common theme -- each is set during the French Revolution (hence the title).

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1955. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Collected Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth, gilt, minor scuffing on the top corner. Pictorial dust jacket, bumped corners, head and heel, and soiled rear. Interior clean. First collected edition. Scaramouche was made into a swashbuckling film..

London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first compiled edition in near fine condition with like dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is brightly illustrated with a few wrinkles around edges. Book has bright red boards and faint tanning on endpapers. ; Compilation of Scaramouche, The Marquis of Carabas, and the Lost King ; 8vo; 341, 321, 415 pages .