Péchés De Jeunesse Alexandre Dumas Fils.

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Péchés de Jeunesse Alexandre Dumas fils. Fellins et dufour 1847 first edition Very scarce first edition of the authors first poetry collections Alexandre Dumas fils Alexandre Dumas fils (18241895) was a French author and playwright, the son of the more famous Alexandre Dumas père, who wrote classics like The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The "fils" (meaning "son" in French) distinguishes him from his father. Dumas fils is best known for his novel La Dame aux Camélias According to Dumas fils himself, only about 100 copies of the book were ever bound Out of these, a mere 14 or 15 copies were actually sold, while he gave away around 100 copiesthough this number seems to conflict with the initial 100 bound copies, suggesting some ambiguity in his statement. Its possible he meant that 100 copies were printed in total, with only a small fraction bound and sold, and the rest distributed as unbound sheets or given away Theres also a rumor that Dumas fils sought to withdr

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