Notre Dame de Paris [The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]
New York: Ives Washburn, 1928. Pape, Eric. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2316868
Lacks slipcase. Frontispiece lightly foxed, spine faded, boards lightly soiled.
xxxi, 583 pp. The complete work in one volume, together with an introduction by Clayton Hamilton, and a note originally added to the end of the 1832 edition, explaining the inclusion of several chapters that did not appear in the original edition because they were thought to be lost (they were discovered and then revised). Color frontispiece and woodcut illustrations by Eric Pape. "More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love. In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor Hugo's sensational, evocative novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenth century."
Price: $75.00