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New York, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1911]. First edition in English. Small close tear to upper edge of half-title page, some very light rubbing to cloth edges, several small 'bubble spots' to cloth, a bright clean nearly fine copy with no degradation to the easily perishable enamel stamping. (14543). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-357 [358-360: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], one single-page and four double-page inserted plates with color illustrations by Andre Castaigne, original pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white and blind. Translation of LE FANTOME DE L'OPERA (1910). Leroux wrote over thirty popular novels of mystery and detection, including THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM (1908), a pioneer locked room mystery, considered the greatest masterpiece of French detective fiction. "He remains most famous, however, for ... THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ... Although there is nothing supernatural in his text, the charged Grand-Guignol ambiance…

About The Phantom of the Opera

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.