Description: LEROUX, GASTON. Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Half-title. 8vo, contemporary ¾ brown polished morocco over marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands and leather lettering label, top edges gilt; with the original wrappers and backstrip bound in, terminal text leaves (pp. 513-518 of prologue) bound between preliminaries and table of contents leaf. – Paris: Pierre Lafitte et Cie., [1910]
Footnote: first book edition, retaining the fragile wrappers in unusually bright state of preservation. Preceded only by a popular tabloid edition. The source material for numerous films, as well as the enormously successful stage production.