Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
Carleton Publishing Company
1862
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First American edition and first edition in English of Hugo's Les Misérables.
- Sold as a set of 5.
- Victor Hugo (French).
- New York: Carleton Publishing Company, 1862.
- Bound in publisher's full blue, burgundy or brown cloth.
Fantine.
171 pages plus four-page publisher's advertisement.
Cosette.
164 pages plus four-page publisher's advertisement.
Marius.
150 pages plus two-page publisher's advertisement.
Saint Denis.
184 pages.
Jean Valjean.
165 pages plus one-page publisher's advertisement.
Charles E. Wilbour was hired by the Carleton Publishing Company to translate Hugo's grand masterpiece, and he did so very quickly, allowing the first American edition to be published within months of its French release. The intense advertising campaign waged by Carleton resulted in massive sales for Les Misérables, solidifying Hugo's epic in second place (behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin) in pre-Civil War American book sales.
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Very GoodSome light rubbing to boards.
Saint Denis with a dark liquid stain on page 184, extending through page 176.
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