Alexandre DUMAS Père

DUMAS Alexandre
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
[The Count of Monte Cristo]
Société belge de librairie & Meline, Cans & Cie, Bruxelles 1845-1846, 10 x 15,5 cm, 8 volumes bound in 4, contemporary half sheep
Very rare Belgian counterfeit edition published the same year as the first edition.
Brown half sheep bindings, spines slightly discolored and decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, marbled paper boards, contemporary bindings.
Small chafed patches on the upper cover of the last board, some rare spotting, a slight lack to the margin of page 73 in the seventh volume, not touching the text.
Very rare.
$ 5 500

DUMAS Alexandre
Caligula
Marchant, Paris 1838, 15,5 x 24,5 cm, vellum binding
First edition.
Binding in Bradel in manner of vellum, double fillets and the date decorated on the foot, title piece in brown shagreen, board in marbled paper, rare restored and preserved yellow wrappers, binding by Pierson. Some spots, two angular damp marks effecting the page where the handwritten message affixed by the author is found, the others are lighter in the margin on certain pages, some pages have marginal marks, not touching the text, the page 31 was repaired in the margin.
Autograph inscription by Alexandre Dumas to Mr. Marthey.
Two other annotations to the...

First edition printed on vergé paper; the two first volumes were published by Dolin, but were immediately taken up by Alexandre Cadot with a reworked title page. The two final volumes appear to have been published directly by Cadot. A bibliographical curio, this copy has the extremely rare titles with Dolin’s address.
Contemporary Romantic half coral-red sheep over cloth (partly faded), spine with gilt arabesques in the fashion of the time, gilt tools with the emblem of George Tudor to foot, a little light rubbing, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, armorial ex libris of George Tudor to pastedowns.
Tear without lack to pp. 141-142 of volume 4.
A rare copy, almost entirely...

Original photograph of Alexandre Dumas.
Contemporary albumen print mounted on card, studio mark of the photographer Pierre Petit to verso.

Handsome autograph signature by Alexandre Dumas under the portrait in an elegant hand.

Rare.

First edition of the adaptation by Jean-Paul Sartre, one of 46 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête.
A fine copy.

First edition.
Half maroon morocco over marbled paper boards, spine with a gilt cartouche containing gilt arabesques, date and place of publication in gilt to foot of spine, blindstamped roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, gilt fillet frame to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, two corners slightly rubbed, two small insignificant tears to edges, covers preserved, inscription in ballpoint pen to first and final endpapers, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription signed by Alexandre Dumas.
A little light spotting.

Pre-first edition.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets and black fillets, gilt frieze at tail, some light rubbing to spine, two lacks to head of spine, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Other contributions by George Sand, Casimir Delavigne, Brillat-Savarin, Alphonse Karr...
Journal illustrated with plates.
Foxing