Alexandre dumas rowland wheelwright illustrator (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. None. Ownership signature. Pictorial pastedown covers. All plates in color and present. Very nice oldie, evocative of an age and nice intro to Dumas.

First published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844, it relates the adventures of four fictional, swashbuckling heroes. D'Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony and becomes embroiled in three duels with the three musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. The four become such close friends that D'Artagnan serves an apprenticeship to become a musketeer. 8vo (220 x 160 mm); 16 full-page colour illustrations, including frontispiece, some light spotting to prelims and sporadic marginal spotting to some other leaves throughout, else very good; finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, modern half red morocco over red boards, lined in gilt, spine in 6 compartments, lined in gilt with gilt lettering to second and third, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Alma W. Fabes to front pastedown, one or two very fair signs of wear to extremities, else very good plus; 556pp.…