DUMAS, Alexandre, père.
Maître Adam le Calabrais.
Paris, Dumont, 1840.
8vo, pp. 347 plus table of contents leaf; some light scattered foxing, but a good copy in contemporary half roan gilt and marbled boards, signed by Bradel, spine restored.
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Maître Adam le Calabrais.
Rare first authorised edition of an early comic novel by Dumas, written in 1839, before he achieved fame as a novelist. This edition was preceded by an unauthorised printing in Brussels the previous year.
Set in 1817 in the Calabrian hamlet of Nicotera, Maître Adam le Calabrais is an adventure story involving a country painter, Maître Adam, his marriageable daughter, and a notorious bandit, Marco Brandi.
OCLC locates four copies, at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Yale, Manchester, and Leipzig.
Vicaire, III, 351; not in Carteret.
