Books

240pp; frontispiece; 7 sepia plates, scenes from 1925 film; no d/j, blue cloth boards with rubbed edges, eps toned; trans. by Alexander Texeira De Mattos; internally clean and good; rear hinge cracked, spine tanned, no date. Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall.

The Phantom of the Opera, published serially in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910, and in volume form in late March 1910, is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It tells the story of a mysterious masked man living in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House and his obsessive love for the beautiful Christine Daaé.