Gaston Leroux - Le Mystère de la chambre jaune - Édition originale - 1908





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Gaston Leroux’s illustrated first edition of *Le Mystère de la chambre jaune* was published in French in 1908 by Pierre Lafitte & Cie and has 452 pages.
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Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room. The Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. Rouletabille's first adventure, one of the foundational novels of the locked-room mystery.
Edition: Paris, Pierre Lafitte & Co., 90 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, s.d. [1908].
Print run: first edition in volume, published January 1908 after serial publication in L’Illustration in 1907. Unnumbered copy, on ordinary paper (no large-paper issue announced). The volume contains the printed dedication “To Robert Charvay. Grateful remembrance of the beginnings of young Rouletabille.”
Engravings: a black frontispiece, portrait of Joseph Rouletabille after a drawing by José Simont. Initial caps and typographic headpieces.
Binding: blue-night half-leather, spine with 5 raised bands adorned with gold fleurons, gilt title, boards of blue marbled paper, endpapers of blue marbled paper.
- Dimensions: 12.5 x 18.1 cm
- Condition: Binding: good condition; Interior: good condition.
- Pencil annotation on a white sheet. See photos for more details.
- Number of pages: 452 pages
Careful shipment in a rigid and watertight carton.
Seller's Story
Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room. The Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. Rouletabille's first adventure, one of the foundational novels of the locked-room mystery.
Edition: Paris, Pierre Lafitte & Co., 90 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, s.d. [1908].
Print run: first edition in volume, published January 1908 after serial publication in L’Illustration in 1907. Unnumbered copy, on ordinary paper (no large-paper issue announced). The volume contains the printed dedication “To Robert Charvay. Grateful remembrance of the beginnings of young Rouletabille.”
Engravings: a black frontispiece, portrait of Joseph Rouletabille after a drawing by José Simont. Initial caps and typographic headpieces.
Binding: blue-night half-leather, spine with 5 raised bands adorned with gold fleurons, gilt title, boards of blue marbled paper, endpapers of blue marbled paper.
- Dimensions: 12.5 x 18.1 cm
- Condition: Binding: good condition; Interior: good condition.
- Pencil annotation on a white sheet. See photos for more details.
- Number of pages: 452 pages
Careful shipment in a rigid and watertight carton.

