Hugo Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Richard Bentley, UK, 1833.

Price: US$3206.68 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, second printing in English of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Translated expressly for this edition. With a sketch of  the life and writings of the author, Victor Hugo, by Frederick Shoberl. In good + condition with wear to boards and extremities. Bookplate on the front end paper. Hinges lightly cracked. Stains on half title and title page otherwise clean contents. 8vo 466pp plus advertisements.

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

HUGO, Victor. The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame. U.K / Richard Bentley, 1833.

Price: US$10902.72 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. Esmeralda, a beautiful, sixteen-year-old Romani dancer, is the romantic and sexual interest of many men, including Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers, poet Pierre Gringoire, the hunchbacked cathedral bell-ringer Quasimodo, and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre-Dame Cathedral. // This was 'translated' from the French with 'A Sketch of the Life and Writings' by Frederick Shoberl. This Number XXXII in the Standard Novels series. This is a part cloth/leather bound 'English' 1st edition hardback in good condition-the leather is scuffed&rubbed & the top edge of the spines leather is chipped & the text pages are a little 'foxed' in places. / 2 people have written there name on there front 'end-paper' & there is a piece of the back 'end-paper' that been torn off. More pictures available. (468 pages & 14 pages of introduction). Originally published in France as 'Notre-Dame de Paris' in 1831.

Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom