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First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with gilt lettering, ruling and illustration to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's name to the front free endpaper and some light spotting to the closed text block edge and prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased price-clipped dustwrapper that has a few short closed tears at the extremities and is otherwise without loss.

The fifth novel published by Francis Gaite (pseudonym of the already pseudonymous Manning Coles). "The Pyrenean Principality of Saint-Roche has been cut off from the world for twenty years. Now the exchequer is completely empty. But the Prince's new English manservant, Robert Brown, finds an ingenious way to attract American dollars." (from the jacket). (Hubin).