The I. H. Slater Collection of Alexandre Dumas 1918-1968

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The I. H. Slater Collection of Alexandre Dumas 1918-1968

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Ivan H. Slater, from Kaeo, Northland, New Zealand, owned possibly the largest private collection of editions of Alexandre Dumas Pere (1802-1870) during the 1930s through the 1960s.His passion for collecting Dumas material lasted until his death in 1968. Slater worked in association with other Dumas collectors in New Zealand and abroad, principally by correspondence, as he never traveled outside of New Zealand.

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