Le Comte de Monte–Christo The Count of Monte–Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

$90,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

Brussels: Alph. Lebègue, 1845-1846. First Edition. 15 vols. bound in 7. Contemporary 3/4 cloth, marbled boards. The true first edition of the most popular novel of the nineteenth century — and very probably the rarest first edition of any novel that could rightly be called a classic of fiction. The first fourteen volumes dated 1845 and the last dated 1846, exactly mirroring the serialization in the Journal des

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