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New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First American Edition. Octavo (7 7/16"x 5"); [viii], 357pp. Five full-color illustrations -- frontis with tissue guard and four double-page plates -- all present. Scarce original illustrated dust jacket with $1.25 net price to spine; book in publisher's brown cloth with blindstamped Phantom and cream lettering. "Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N. Y." imprint at bottom of copyright. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with internal tape repair at front fold, tail of spine, and top back panel (browned), and with one clear external tape repair (1") at top front corner over fold, along with some general light scuffs -- affecting a few letters -- moderate smudging / darkening to surface -- mainly to white of spine and back panel -- and a faint waterspot to spine below price. Boards lightly bumped at corners with a bit of rubbing along…

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.