Mistress Wilding

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1924. 2nd American Edition. Hardcover. Second American Edition -- published in the UK as Anthony Wilding. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has noticeable toning and spots of rubbing, wear and ground-in dirt, along with several small tears and chips. The dust jacket art is by Harold Brett. "After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. In 1905, he married Ruth Goad Dixon, the daughter of a Liverpool merchant. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. The novel, an historical romance set during the French Revolution, became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood (1922). All of his earlier books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk (1915). Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year and maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed." (from Wikipedia) .