The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)

The dominant reprint trap is the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition, New York, 1925, issued for the Universal/Lon Chaney silent film: it retains the 1911 Bobbs-Merrill copyright date on the verso, which is exactly what fools buyers into thinking it a first. Identify it by the Grosset & Dunlap imprint on title page and spine, black-and-white film stills on coated stock, red cloth with black lettering, and the wraparound photoplay jacket art. Later Lafitte printings are told by combining the cover edition number with the corrected page 400 reading.