A CUT AND A KISS. Boston: Brown and Company, 1899. Small octavo, original red cloth stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Seven stories of high society romance. This book does not appear to have been published in the UK The author's first success, THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1894), was his greatest and launched a sub-genre of fiction. "The field that he had made his own and in which he was supreme was the 'sword and cloak' school of fiction, which stemmed directly from the novels of the elder Dumas." - Kunitz and Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, p. 629. Not in NCBEL or Wolff. Spine gilt a bit dull, a very good copy. (#117177).
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