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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Photoplay edition. Fine in a striking, very good dustwrapper with some small tears and chips. Retains two of the vivid two-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne that appeared in the first American edition, as well as adds stills from the Universal film featuring Lon Chaney. An attractive copy of a desirable title.

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.