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DUMAS, Alexandre [Alexander].

The Count of Monte-Cristo.

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure": First Edition in English of Dumas’ The Count of Monte-Cristo; From the library of Tycoon of Joseph A. Campbell

London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

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First edition in English of the author’s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition and before the American first. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with twenty wood-engraved plates after Henry Valentin. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
The Count of Monte Cristo, in particular, is "perhaps the outstanding work of fiction to reveal the futility of human vengeance, even when it attains its utmost completeness. Maurice Baring calls it the most popular book in the world" (Frank Wild Reed). "One of the best thrillers ever written" (Reid, 134).
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