Notes on Dumas' The Three Musketeers

Notes on Dumas' The Three Musketeers

There were two editions on this title. The first had no introdution and no translator noted. The second (1950) had an intro and a listed translator, both duties handled by Jacques Le Clercq. Both editions were marked as First Modern Library Edition.

The first of the 1950 edition has a Fall 1949 list on the DJ inverse (Byron, Don Juan, but not James, Washington Square), but a Spring 1950 list at the back of the book (James, Washington Square but not Alcott, Little Women).


First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     4 for the original; 8 for the 1950 edition

First inverse DJ number:     [ none - but 344 for the second ]

Dates in print:     1928 - 1949 (no introduction)
                              1950 - 1970 (Le Clercq intro)

Toledano number:   143.1 (no introduction)
                                   143.2 (Le Clercq intro)


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Confirmed buckram sighting?      no


Intro author:     none for first
                           Jacques Le Clercq for 1950

Genre:     Novel; Children/Adolescents

Original language:      French

Translator:      William Robson (1928 edition)
                          Jacques Le Clercq (1950 edition)


Thanks to:

Henry Toledano V. Civiletti

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