( Baroness ) The Scarlet Pimpernel, first American edition , 12 photographic plates ?from a dramatic production, 4pp. advertisements, hinges pulling with minor splitting to endpapers, original cloth with lettering in gilt and floral bouquet to upper cover, some light soiling and edge rubbing, slight shelf-lean, but overall a good copy, 8vo, New York & London , 1905. The first American edition, issued coevally to the very scarce UK first edition and in a similar style binding, but with slightly different shade of blue and variant bouquet design.