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193176367New York: Minton 1931. hardcover. near fine. Newly Translated. With 10 monochrome water-colours by Maurice Barraud. Square 8vo pictorial boards; slipcase missing top. New York: Harrison of Paris 1931. Limited Edition. Near fine.<br/> <br/> One of 425 numbered copies on Rives pure-rag vellum.<br/> <br/> Minton unknown
1946OB932<p>Grenoble Marcel Besson 1946. Hard Cover. 236 p. illus.; 25 cm. First published in 1840 and Mérimée's first great success this novel tells of a young Corsican girl who pushes her brother to commit murder to avenge their father's death. Limited to 640 copies this copy has pencil note "Exemplair d'Artiste Paulete sic Humbert." Fine / slipcase fine; gift quality. Stock#OB932.</p> Marcel Besson hardcover
191087540Paris: Calmann Lévy 1910. Fine. Calmann Lévy Paris s.d. ca 1910 12 x 19 cm relié New edition. Half morocco binding with corners in red spine with four raised bands set with black fillets and decorated with triple black compartments anthracite grey morocco title-label and author's name marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt original wrappers preserved contemporary binding. Handsome copy beautifully executed of one of the most famous and sought-after titles by Prosper Mérimée which was immortalized in opera by Georges Bizet. Calmann Lévy hardcover
191087543Paris: Calmann Lévy 1910. Fine. Calmann Lévy Paris s.d. ca 1910 12 x 19 cm relié New edition. Half red morocco with corners spine with four raised bands set with black fillets and decorated with triple black compartments title-label and author's name in olive green morocco marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt original wrappers preserved contemporary binding. Handsome copy beautifully bound. Calmann Lévy hardcover
1905177132Calcutta: Mérimée Society 1905. Hardcover. VG bumping and shelfwear to boards age toning to pages as expected with age but pages are otherwise clear. Three quarter leather marbled boards gilt design and lettering on spine marble decorative end pages original green wraps bound in XXXVI 29 pp. one bw illustration/. Text in French. The text begins on pg. 3. Privately printed for the Members of the Merimee Society in an edition of 50 copies this being number 12. Mérimée Society hardcover
1941IRIrmMÉR56New York: The Limited Editions Club 1941. 1941. 4to. pp. 143 1colophon. 34 lithographs 33 in colour 1 b/w 8 full-page incl. frontis. & title vignette. A very good copy in original quarter cloth spine darkened. without the slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies but not stated signed by the Illustrator Charlot. Designed and printed on Worthy special paper by Aldus Printers New York set in linotype Bodoni colour lithographs printed by Albert Carman NY bound by Russell-Rutter Company NY. LEC Quarto-Millenary 124. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hardcover
19411248371941. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1941. <br /> <br /> 4to. 143 pp. Color lithographs throughout. Quarter cloth and colorful patterned cloth boards backstrip and upper board with slight sunning lacking slipcase internally a fine copy.<br /> <br /> § Copy #1290 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Introduction by Konrad Bercovic. Illustrated with lithographs in color by Jean Charlot. The translation by Lady Mary Lloyd. "Due to the exigencies of that bastard musical form known as opera and the lack of respect librettists the world over have shown for their 'inspirers' Mérimée's tale will be a great surprise to those who know Carmen only from this side of the opera's footlights." Introduction. unknown
193135015Paris 1931. Limited. hardcover. fine. Newly translated. With ten monochrome water-colours by Maurice Barraud. 175pp. Small 4to pictorial boards board slipcase. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. Fine.<br/> <br/> One of 595 numbered copies with stencil-colored illustrations printed on Rives pure-rag vellum.<br/> <br/> unknown
1942807F37Paris: P. M. Le Blanc 1942. Leather. Near Fine. 11.5" by 9.5". Guy Arnoux. A beautifully bound and vibrantly illustrated Limited Edition of this historical novel set in the sixteenth century French court illustrated with colour lithographs from Guy Arnoux. In the original French.A vibrantly illustrated Limited Edition of French Romantic writer Prosper Merimee's historical novel set in the French court in the mid sixteenth century at the time of the St. Bartholomew massacre.Beautifully bound in half crushed morocco and with publisher's original paper wraps and back strip bound in to the front and rear of the work. Of only 410 copies produced this volume is no. 152 one of 125 copies printed with a suite of fifteen plates in black and white to the rear.Illustrated with fifteen colour lithograph plates by French artist Guy Arnoux alongside the further fifteen plates to the rear. Collated complete.Best known for the novella 'Carmen' this is a stunning edition of Merimee's historical novel first published in 1828. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper covered boards. Minor fading to back strip. Otherwise externally fine. The odd spot to fore edge of text block. With publisher's original paper wraps and back strip bound in to the front and rear of the work. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with the odd area of more significant spotting to page perimeters towards centre of text block. Near Fine P. M. Le Blanc hardcover
1902001708Paris: Librairie L. Conquet. L. Carteret et Cie 1902. Limited Edition. Half Morocco over Marbled Boards. Near Fine. A lightly racy posthumous novella by Merimee illustrated deliciously. No. 98 of 250 copies in the limited edition among the examples on Whatman paper. Small 4to. 58 pp. Watercolor wash illustrations throughout. A few light smudges in margins. Minor wear on lower board edges. A most elegant binding. Librairie L. Conquet. L. Carteret et Cie unknown
1905032058New York: Croscup and Holby Company 1905. Book. Illus. by Edouard Toudouze; Fraipont Bramtot and Aranda; et al. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Eight volumes. Limited Large Paper Edition. This set is # 51 of 520 numbered copies. Contemporary blue leather over boards; with decorative gilt onlays to compartments and raised bands to spine. Top edge edge. Side and bottom edges deckled. Blue marbled endpapers. B&w illustrated tipped in plate with tissue guard to half title and an additional colour plate of the same illustration to fontis with red letter to tissue guards. Illustrated throughout with b&w plates accompanied by tissue guards with red lettering. Bookplate to endpaper. Volumes and titles included: A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Charles IX translated by George Saintsbury; The Double Mistake translated by Arnold Palmer and Waller; The Mosaic translated by Waller and Dey; Carmen translated by Waller Loyd and Thompson; Colomba translated by Loyd; Letters To An Unknown I translated by Palmer; Letters To An Unknown II translated by Palmer; Last Stories translated by Waller and Paul. Insides very clean and bright. Light toning to plates and half title. Leather and extremities near fine. A very good limited set. . Croscup and Holby Company Hardcover
1946438977Nice : L'Image Litteraire 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy finely bound in half calf over vellum boards. Light foxing scattered throughout. Limited and numbered edition: 346/450. Nice : L'Image Litteraire hardcover
1941010401New York: Limited Editions Club 1941. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine a little darkened as usual. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with mild staining. Jean Charlot. Quarto 8-3/8" x 11" bound in bright and colorful hand-blocked gypsy silk cloth. Illustrated with 37 beautiful lithographs in color drawn on the plates by Jean Charlot. Copy #1205 of 1500 SIGNED and numbered by the artist. Perhaps the most stunning and underrated of the early books from the press. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
194138004Casablanca: Société des Bibliophiles du Maroc / Editions de la Cigogne Jacques Klein 1941. A charming edition of this important "arabaizant" novella by Merimee illustrated with 17 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY HUNGARIAN-JEWISH ARTIST LASZLO BARTA. Published for French expatriate bibliophiles in Casablanca during the Occupation the movie came out in 1942 the following year. Edition limited to 110 numbered copies printed on fine Rives wove paper. Complete with the list of members of the Société which is often missing. Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT. <br/><br/> Société des Bibliophiles du Maroc / Editions de la Cigogne (Jacques Klein) paperback
19201389963Zürich Switzerland: Rascher & Co 1920. Limited Edition #65/150. Hardcover. Large octavo 92 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is torn beige and red. Boards have mildew-stained covers moderate shelving wear and fraying along extremities cloth binding torn from spine and moderate bumping chipping and fraying to fore corners. Text block age-toned head edge gilded with mild denting along edges; plates are mildly foxed throughout gilt and black endpapers. Signed flat by Alastair Illustrator in purple ink on publisher's limitation page limited edition #65/150. PO Consignment. 1389963. Special Collections - Downstairs. Rascher & Co hardcover
193151628Paris: Harrison 1931. Limited edition no. 21 of 50 copies on Japanese vellum from a total edition of 665 copies 8vo viii 175 1 pp. 10 illustrations including that to the upper cover. Original maroon quarter morocco spine slightly sunned some light marks to the covers. Paris: Harrison unknown
195672847París: Presses de Pierre Gaudin 1956. Cartoné original. Presses de Pierre Gaudin unknown
1931dacs263New York: Harrison of Paris 1931. Of an edition of 50 copies on Imperial Japan vellum this is No. XVI. Octavo morocco-backed illustrated boards hardcover leather top edge gilt uncut viii 175 pp. Illustrated with ten monochrome watercolors that have been stencil-colored by Eugène Charpentier. Fine. Harrison of Paris, 1931. Of an edition of 50 copies on Imperial Japan vellum, this is No. XVI. hardcover