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5 X 7 1/2 Inches. 357 PP. First American printing with "1911" date on copyright page and bound in original issue embossed cloth. Title box and stamping to front cover and spine. Original frontis illustration and tissue guard intact. Original "Press of Braunworth & Co., Bookbinders And Printers, Brooklyn, N. Y." on copyright page as called for. Illustrations by Andre Castaigne. Basis for numerous film and stage adaptations. A very attractive copy with a previous owner name and date to top of FFEP. Light foxing and toning throughout. Hint of rubbing to spine stamping.

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.