8vo. Color frontispiece and four 2-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne. Original red cloth stamped in white and blind; ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (small closed tear to front panel, short crease and some soiling on rear panel, a few tiny chips to top fore-corner and head of spine panel). Provenance: Caleb Vance Hayes ("C.V. Haynes") (1895-1966), USAF major general (ownership signature dated 1918).

A CORNERSTONE OF THE HORROR AND MYSTERY GENRES.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the imprint "Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N.Y." at the foot of the copyright page.

IN THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, one of only a few known copies to have retained its jacket (we could only trace 5 copies at auction). This is only the second time this design for the dust jacket has appeared at auction, the first appearing only recently in 2023 at the Gary Munson sale (a previously unknown variant). There are now three known variant dust jackets - one with the Phantom in the bell tower, another using the frontispiece design of the Phantom descending the stairs, and an interior plate of Christine staggering and swooning (as seen here). Bleiler, p.179.