Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers (Tri mushketera). Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (BPiNF), frame series, 1954. In Russian.

Дюма, Александр. Три мушкетера. Перевод В. Вальдмана, Д. Лившица и К. Ксаниной. Рисунки Мориса Лелуара.
М.: Детгиз, 1954. 744 с., ил.
Серия: Библиотека приключений и научной фантастики (БПиНФ), «рамка».
Твердый переплет, обычный формат. Тираж 75 000 экз. Иллюстрированные форзацы.
Состояние переплета: хорошее. Потертости, загрязнения, ссадины на задней крышке. Состояние блока: хорошее. Надрыв титульного листа у корешка, осыпание форзаца, пятна на нижнем поле последних листов.
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Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers (Tri mushketera). Translated by V. Valdman, D. Livshits and K. Ksanina. Illustrated by Maurice Leloir.
Moscow: Detgiz, 1954. 744 pp., illustrated.
Series: Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (BPiNF), frame series.
Hardcover, standard format. Print run 75,000 copies. Pictorial endpapers.
Price stamp on the rear board.
Binding condition: Good. Rubbed, soiled, scuffs on the rear board. Text block condition: Good. Title leaf torn at the gutter, flaking to the front endpaper, liquid stains to the lower margin of the last leaves.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) published The Three Musketeers in 1844, first as a serial in the newspaper Le Siecle, and Auguste Maquet is credited as his collaborator in bibliographies such as Fantlab. The biographical note printed in this copy gives Dumas's birth year as 1803, a year late. The novel follows the young Gascon d'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris under Louis XIII, befriends the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and is drawn into the court intrigue around Queen Anne, Cardinal Richelieu, the Duke of Buckingham and the poisoner Milady, a story that runs through the siege of La Rochelle to the execution of its villainess. The preface and the note in this volume cite the memoirs of d'Artagnan attributed to Courtilz de Sandras as Dumas's source. The Russian text is the translation by V. Valdman, D. Livshits and K. Ksanina, with the chapters divided among the three as the verso note details; Fantlab dates this version to 1949, so this 1954 Detgiz printing is not a first edition. It is a heavy volume of 744 pages, set in type on 3 April and signed to press on 28 July 1954 in a run of 75,000 copies, and it belongs to the Library of Adventure and Science Fiction (BPiNF), the Detgiz frame series, in red cloth with a gilt ornamental border. The illustrations are by Maurice Leloir, the French artist whose drawings for the novel date from the 1890s, and the endpapers reproduce a montage of the three musketeers with scenes of a ladder climb, a duel, a dance and a rider. As a major classic in the frame series binding, it appeals to collectors of Soviet editions of Dumas, frame series completists, and readers of historical adventure in Russian.