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Alexandre Dumas | First Editions
1802 - 1870
Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (4 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), was a prolific French writer of the nineteenth century. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors to date. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Since the early twentieth century, Dumas' work has been adapted for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier. Accomplished in several genres, Dumas' published works total over 100,000 pages.
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![Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]....](/pictures/thumb/53407.jpg?v=1553696078)
Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]. Translated by I.G. Burnham. Illustrated with Photogravures after Original Drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, Wagrez, etc.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. [True Crime] Octavo (20 x 14 x 30cm), eight volumes. With several full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards. Handsomely bound in half red morocco, gilt, with matching red cloth sides, top edges gilt, gilt-patterned endpapers. Some foxing within, lightly handled to exterior; a very good set... More about Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]....
The Company of Jehu.
London; Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. 1895. First thus. 2 volumes, 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spines. Old cloth repairs to spines. Wear and abrasion to spine ends some scuffing to corners. Strong, solid and durable. Internally clean, minor isolated spotting. Illustrated frontis. with... More about The Company of Jehu
Memoirs of a Physician.
London: Simms and M'Intyre 1847. First complete edition in English. Three volumes in one. 12mo. Bound in quarter red morocco with marbled boards, gilt bands and title to spine. Some scuffing to borads, slight fading to spine. Text clean, with some pages turned down. Munro, pp.125-126. More about Memoirs of a Physician
The Wolf-Leader. Newly translated by Afred Allinson.
London: Methuen, [1904]. Octavo, pp. 8 [advertisements]; 115. In publisher's decorated wraps, white card overprinted in red and black. Front of book features stylised titles and author's name bordered by a sword design, with central image of the 'wolf-leader' surrounded by a pack of ferocious wolves. Book is in extremely... More about The Wolf-Leader. Newly translated by Afred Allinson
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