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Hardcover, yellow cloth, no dust-jacket. 322pp., Illustrated with 4 plates. First edition. The story of the adventures of Franklin darlington, American Among the Secret Agents of the Exiled Louis XVIII King of France; How Compelled to Flea From London He was Shipwrecked on Boulogne Sands; How Various Dangers Drove Him to Mittau in Courland and Thence to the Black Forest and of the Part he Played in the Events that Centered About the Kidnapping and Judicial Murder by Bonaparte of the Ill-fated Due d’Enghien. Previous owner’s name in pencil on front free endpaper. Some mild age soiling but overall a clean, sound, unmarked copy. A nice example of an early twentieth century adventure novel for yopung adults.