first edition
1850 · Paris
by DUMAS, Alexandre
Paris: Baudry, 1850. La Tulipe Noire. Paris: Baudry, 1850.
Full Description:
DUMAS, Alexandre. La Tulipe Noire. Paris: Baudry, [n.d. 1850].
First edition. Three octavo volumes (8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 225 x 140 mm). [4], 313, [3]; [4], 304, [2]; [4], 316, [2] pp. Each volumes with half-title and page of publisher's ads.
Uniformly bound by Stikeman & Co. in later half red morocco over red cloth boards. Morocco ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Some occasional very light foxing. Small closed tear to top edge of page 155 in volume II, not affecting text. Some minor rubbing to outer hinges and some minor repairs along hinges. Previous owner (Katherine Mackay) bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A very good, uncut copy of this scarce novel.
Provenance: Katherine Mackay is the mother of Ellin Berlin who was the wife of Irving Berlin.
"The myth of a black tulip inspired the 1850 novel by Alexander Dumas, a story that influenced generations. It is a powerful tale about love, jealousy, and obsession. In the story, a magnificent prize is offered to the first man or woman to produce a pure black tulip. Dutch growers worked for years to create a black tulip cultivar in real life." (Amsterdam Tulip Museum). Due to it's rarity and difficulty to produce, the term "black tulip" has become synonymous with something of extreme rarity.
"Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland." (Good Reads)
HBS 69317.
$4,500. (Inventory #: 69317)
Full Description:
DUMAS, Alexandre. La Tulipe Noire. Paris: Baudry, [n.d. 1850].
First edition. Three octavo volumes (8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 225 x 140 mm). [4], 313, [3]; [4], 304, [2]; [4], 316, [2] pp. Each volumes with half-title and page of publisher's ads.
Uniformly bound by Stikeman & Co. in later half red morocco over red cloth boards. Morocco ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Some occasional very light foxing. Small closed tear to top edge of page 155 in volume II, not affecting text. Some minor rubbing to outer hinges and some minor repairs along hinges. Previous owner (Katherine Mackay) bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A very good, uncut copy of this scarce novel.
Provenance: Katherine Mackay is the mother of Ellin Berlin who was the wife of Irving Berlin.
"The myth of a black tulip inspired the 1850 novel by Alexander Dumas, a story that influenced generations. It is a powerful tale about love, jealousy, and obsession. In the story, a magnificent prize is offered to the first man or woman to produce a pure black tulip. Dutch growers worked for years to create a black tulip cultivar in real life." (Amsterdam Tulip Museum). Due to it's rarity and difficulty to produce, the term "black tulip" has become synonymous with something of extreme rarity.
"Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland." (Good Reads)
HBS 69317.
$4,500. (Inventory #: 69317)
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