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1897109925New York: Brentano's 1897. First American edition. Publisher's tan cloth with titles design and rule in gilt on the front board rear board and spine. Near Fine. Small article tipped in at the front endpaper with corresponding offsetting on the front pastedown else a bright clean copy. Brentano's unknown books
187414244New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1874. 12mo. 2 xvi 17350 2 pp. <br><br>Publisher's "Bric-a-brac series" number 3. Volume edited by Richard Henry Stoddard. Includes "Twenty-five years of my life" by Alphonse de Lamartine and "Recollections" by George Sand. Translated by Lady Herbert. Publisher's white cloth stamped and decorated in black and gold. Spine sunned slightly cocked. Hinges inside starting and open signature separated. Soiling on back cover. Ex-library with bookplate rubber-stamps call number on spine in white charge pocket and date due slip at rear. Private owner's stamps including on title-page. Top and bottom of spine pulled with loss of cloth. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. hardcover books
1890800651890. Merimee Prosper. A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX. NY: Printed at the Chiswick Press for Cassell Publishing Company n.d. ca. 1890. illustrations by Edouard Toudouze xvi 309p. Hardcover in original rust brown cloth. 28cm. Minor fraying at ends of backstrip. Some cover scratches. Foxing on endpapers and adjacent leaves. Very Good. This French novel was translated into English by George Saintsbury. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1849L57-1622London: Richard Bentley 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Half sheep and maroon cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine top edge gilt. With a folding chart of the Spanish Line of the House of Burgundy in Volume 1. Joints spine tips and corners scuffed. A nice set. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
1845278868Paris 1845. unbound. very good-. 1 page 8.25 x 5.25 inches Ministry of Public Works Paris circa 1845 in French untranslated telling the recipient that he is giving a dinner party for two Spanish guests and for a mutual friend named Grille and asks if the recipient would be tempted to join them at the "Chez Very." Evenly toned with minor wrinkling at the bottom margin; very good- condition.<br/><br/> French dramatist and short story writer.<br/><br/> unknown books
189051010London: Nimmo 1890. hardcover. near fine. 110 wood engravings from drawings by Edouard Toudouze. Translated by George Saintsbury. 309pp. 4to full brown leather a.e.g. London: Nimmo 1890. Near Fine.<br/><br/> One of 780 numbered copies printed by the Chiswick Press.<br/><br/> Nimmo unknown books
18968991896. GARRETT Edmund H. MERIEE Prosper. CARMEN. Translated From The French And Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. With A Memoir Of The Author by Louise Imogen Guiney. Boston: Little Brown & Company 1896. Small 8vo. light-green cloth stamped in gilt & dark-green top edge gilt. First American Edition. Signed presentation from Garrett on the front endpaper: "Best wishes to Mrs. Bullard Edmund H. Garrett. Atlantic Club July 1903." Very Good little bumping covers but quite bright & nice! $285.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
189623328Winchester Mass: Edmund H. Garrett 1896. First edition. Garrett Edmund H. Original heavy vellum slightly marked with vellum-hinged clasp fasteners missing one clasp nice condition. One of 50 copies printed at the De Vinne Press on Japanese paper signed by Garrett. Additionally inscribed by Garrett as a wedding-present to a Miss Mary Bacon. BAL 6738 describes only the trade edition. <br/><br/> Edmund H. Garrett hardcover books
1853283904London: Bentley 1853. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece. 312 pages slim small 8vo full contemporary polished calf ornately gilt spine with leather labels bright yellow edges. London: Richard Bentley 1853. Binding slightly rubbed still a very good copy.<br/><br/> Bentley unknown books
183917113London: Whittaker & Co 1839. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xliv 371 pp. Original blue-green T-grain cloth; title in gilt on spine and the boards blocked with a design in blind; yellow coated endpapers. With two hand-colored plates the first the frontispiece of English Chromatic Scale Moses Harris's colour-wheel the second after p. 244 of the French Chromatic Scale Merimee's. The 1839 London translation of Merimee's book originally published in French in 1830. Cloth spotted and unevenly sunned on the upper board; inner hinged neatly mended; else a very good copy. With the penciled signature of Nash Hood and with three pencil sketches apparently by him on the endpapers. Rare. Whittaker & Co hardcover books
1827WRCLIT46294Paris: Chez F.G. Levrault.; et.à Strasbourg 1827. xii257pp. Small octavo. Original printed publisher's pale blue boards. Lithographed frontis portrait of Hyacinthe Maglanovitch. Boards faintly soiled small chip at crown of spine inner hinges cracking but sound scattered foxing but a very good copy in original state. First edition of Mérimée's anonymously published second original book presented as being translations from the Illyrian of non- existent poet Hyacinthe Maglanovich. The conceit is said to have taken in Sir John Bowring as well as Pushkin. A scarce book in this original condition. CARTERET II:136. VICAIRE V:705. TALVART & PLACE MÉRIMÉE 3. ASSELINEAU pp.21-2. Chez F.G. Levrault...; et...à Strasbourg hardcover books
18964844MA Devinne Press 1896. 1896. First edition thus. 8vo. Translated and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. Memoir of Merimee by Louise I. Guiney. Full gilt stamped yellow morocco by Blackwell spines with raised bands and gilt stamped floral designs within gilt stamped compartments cover with decorative gilt stamped borders and floral designs gilt stamped inner dentelles heavy patterned endpapers t.e.g. uncut. Fine. Black cloth slipcase. Number 47 of 50 numbered copies signed by Garrett on limitation page; also signed and inscribed on third preliminary page by Garrett to Paul Lemperley November 1986 with an original color drawings of several playing cards one pierced by a dagger. Publisher's prospectus laid in loose. Bookplate of Paul Lemperly on the front pastedown. From the library of noted Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the front free endpaper. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. MA, Devinne Press, 1896. hardcover books
1876888641876. MORIN Edmond. MERIMEE Prosper 1803-1870. CHRONIQUE DU REGNE DE CHARLES IX. RUBAN binding. Paris: Georges Chamerot pour les Amis des Livres 1876. Quarto. Two volumes. 4to. xv422 pp. Number 43 this one for M.G. Masson of an edition of 115 copies of the 100 numbered for subscribers. With thirty-one etchings by Edmond Morin 1824-1882. A portrait of Merimee is inserted in two full-page states. Carteret says "belle illustration cotee" "beautifully illustrated desirable". Carteret 1946: IV p. 278. Bound by Petrus Ruban 1851-1929 in maroon levant gilt in a classic and elegant design of 9 gold fillets repeated in the spine compartments and dentelles. With lovely blue silk floral embroidered doublures and marbled endpapers. T.e.g. 28 cm large paper. Original wrappers bound-in. A few faint scratches on the leather otherwise fine throughout. unknown books
1828WRCLIT46299Paris: Imprimerie de H. Balzac for Brissot-Thivars Libraire 1828. 84221pp. Octavo. 20th century three-quarter fawn calf and marbled boards raised bands lettered in gilt t.e.g. ribbon marker. Early ink authorship attribution on title light foxing binding a bit rubbed but a very good copy. First edition of Mérimée's third original book notable as well for being one of the principal works of literary substance printed by H. Balzac's firm. Unsold sheets from the first edition also appeared later with a cancel title and the imprint of Alexandre Mesnier represented as the "Deuxiéme édition." CARTERET II: 137-8. TALVART & PLACE MÉRIMÉE 4a. VICAIRE V:705-6. [ Imprimerie de H. Balzac for] Brissot-Thivars, Libraire hardcover books
1896266939Winchester Massachusetts: Emdund H. Garrett Printed at the DeVinne Press 1896. Number 26 of 50 copies on Japan vellum signed by the translator. Watercolor on fly-title preceeding p. 1 of "Ronda Bridge Over the Tajo" by Garrett titled and signed in pencil and 19 etchings each signed in pencil by Garrett. Titled in red and black. xxx ii 118 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Recent quarter green morocco marbled boards retaining original green printed endpapers "Winchester 1896" t.e.g. Previous owner's gift inscription on front blank. Garrett Edmund H. Number 26 of 50 copies on Japan vellum signed by the translator. Watercolor on fly-title preceeding p. 1 of "Ronda Bridge Over the Tajo" by Garrett titled and signed in pencil and 19 etchings each signed in pencil by Garrett. Titled in red and black. xxx ii 118 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With A.L.s. from Louise Guiney to the Illustrator. A beautiful and stylish 1896 edition of the Prosper Mérimée novella written in 1845 and the source for Georges Bizet's opera 1875.<br/><br/>With a tipped-in 3-page autograph letter signed "Louise I. Guiney" to Garrett Jan. 11 1893discussing her memoir of the author which appears on pp. ix-xxx: "I will set out to do some 21 pages as readable as I can make them and of course I will treat Prosper 'as if I loved him' after Walton's style with his worm ."<br/><br/>With an autograph note signed describing the printing of the book from Edmund H. Garrett on the title page verso. Garrett also signed each etching as it appears in the book. Emdund H. Garrett [Printed at the DeVinne Press] unknown books
18871269Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1887. Nouvelles de Mérimée. Avec des dessins de Aranda de Beaumont Bramtot.Gravés par Le Rat Lalauze Toussant.Preface par Jules Lemaitre. Edition of 20 copies on Chine this signed by the publisher Damase Jouast with his initials. Tall 8vo. Full green polished morocco with gilt rules raised bands. By the Club Bindery dated 1900. A few tiny scuffs but a fine copy. Seven etchings plus a lithograph of Mérimée after Deveria by Lalauze.<br/><br/> Damase Jouaust’s “Librairie des Bibliophiles series inaugurated in 1869 featured new editions of Classic French texts with etchings reproducing illustrations by François Boucher and other eighteenth-century artists; this collection set the standard for refined limited editions until Jouaust’s 1891 retirement.†23-34.<br/><br/> Silverman Willa Z. The New Bibliopolis. French book collectors and the culture of print 1880-1914. 2013. Provenance: Robert Hoe with his bookplate. Librairie des Bibliophiles hardcover books