6/2/2023 0 Comments Phantom of the opera leroux![]() This copy adds a small piece to the bibliographical puzzle of this edition, which introduced Leroux's suspenseful novel to America. This was an unusual display of largesse and graphic design savviness at a time when jackets were generally drab reproductions of the book's boards and considered disposable. As jacketed copies have only been recently been discovered- the first at auction in 2015- it is becoming clear that Bobbs-Merrill used each illustration for a color dust jacket design. French artist Andre Castaigne painted five watercolors for this work, utilized as color plates in this edition. In a Good chipped, worn and stained dust jacket, with front flap partially separated and abraded at the bottom half and a horizontal closed tear across the spine panel affecting the word "Opera" unsophisticated and a hitherto unrecorded variant nonetheless. Very Good with light soiling and wear to cloth, worming to textblock edge, previous owner name to front free endpaper and several page corners bent. ![]() ![]() Bound in publisher's brick red cloth decorated in blind and stamped in white. ![]() First American edition in the only known dust jacket of this variant, and one of only four or five known surviving dust jackets total. ![]()
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