Merimee ProsperABAA
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1946703Nice: L'Image Litteraire 1946. One of 70 numbered copies on Marais white wove paper from a total edition of 450. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 blue morocco and paste-paper boards spine paneled gilt decorated with maroon rosette morocco inlays title gil top edge gilt original covers bound in a bit of rubbing else fine. Illustrated by Charles Picart le Doux with nine pictorial illustrations hors-texte and 21 headpieces in chiaroscuro style wood engravings with stipple effect with generous use of the roulette. Picart le Doux was a decorator and like Lurcat was engaged in the modern revival of tapestry design. These pictorial illstrations are like blurred sketches for the theatre or ballet with figures in romantic gestures or attitudinized silhouettes. L'Image Litteraire unknown books
19133Beautiful 3/4 leather gilt binding with marbleized eps bright TEG. Spine decorated with 5 daisy-like flowers in gilt & blue. Original wrappers laid in pochoir illus on cover blue silk ribbon intact.<br /><b>Ltd ed #719/1200 on Velin d'Arches - initialed by publisher F. Ferroud</b>. Illustrations by <b>Vuillier.</b><br />Engraved & wash by Omer Bouchery. Corner rub and light edge rub in a few spots.<br /><b>A beautiful book.</b> Librairie Des Amateurs: Editor: F. Ferroud 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
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 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
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
1955046370Lausanne: Editions du Grand-Chene 1955. 226 1p. original stiff printed wrappers deckle edges in the original wrap-around slipcase with red leather spine and original stiff printed boards. No. 12 of 50 copies "sur papier du Marais Editions du Grand-Chene unknown books
1926200455Berlin: R. Mosse 1926. 63p. wraps tiny chip to bottom right corner of front cover mild handling wear; rejected as a duplicate by the Library of Congress with an internal rubberstamp to this effect . Translated by Jean Borel into Esperanto from the French. Biblioteko Tutmonda. R. Mosse 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
194520100Np: Marais 1945. No. 390 of an edition limited to 600 copies. Softcover. Very good-/No jacket issued. Guy Sabran. Marais paperback 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
194722411Paris: Club Des Lecteurs De La Gazette Des Lettres. 1947. Softcover. Wraps No. 409 of 500 copies with illustrations by Clave; a play in fine condition.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Club Des Lecteurs De La Gazette Des Lettres paperback books
194622442Paris: Les Editions Nationales. 1946. Softcover. Unbound signatures laid into wraps No. 477 of 500 copies fine in glassine. 18 woodcuts and 12 full page color lithographs by Aujame with an extra suite of black and white illustrations. In fine board chemise and slipcase. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Les Editions Nationales paperback books
192822295Paris: Rene Kieffer. 1928. Softcover. #254 of 550 copies unbound signatures laid into wraps with 10 colored etchings by Touchagues. Fine in near fine pink paper wraps with pasted on label. Blue paper covered chemise is scuffed as is the box. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . Rene Kieffer paperback books
195233570No place: Privately Printed 1952. Small 8vo. 96 pp. 3 tipped-in color plates. <br><br>Not the opera version rather a new translation of the prose work. The color illustrations are by Maggie Monier. The volume was printed as a Christmas gift for friends by Carl F. Braun and customers of his company.<br>Â Â Â Â A very handsome production. Publisher's black cloth spine gilt decorated front cover with an orange circle on which are a rose a Spanish fan a pistol and playing cards. In a slipcase of green paper over boards. Book in fine condition slipcase shows modest wear. Privately Printed hardcover books
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. <br /><br /> Librairie L. Conquet. L. Carteret et Cie. hardcover books
1940182103New York: Limited Editions Club 1940. Hardcover. VG book is very crisp and clean. Slipcase has overall heavy wear. Bright colorful silky cloth over boards olive cloth spine with red lettering; color illustrated frontispiece color illustration on title page; 143 pp color illustrations throughout. Issued in an olive cardboard slipcase title in red on spine. Limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. This copy is number 177. Includes an introduction by Konrad Bercovici. Illustrated with lithographs in color by Jean Charlot. Translation by Lady Mary Lloyd. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1992UMERCAR00CZCOxford University Press 1992. Good. Merimee Prosper. Carmen and Other Stories. Jotcham Nicholas. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992. 361pp. Bibliography. Mass Market. Book condition: Good. Oxford University Press paperback 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
1931UMERCAR00NJWilliam Farquhar Payson 1931. Good. Merimee Prosper. Carmen. Sterner Albert. New York: William Farquhar Payson 1931. 129pp. Illustrated. 4to. Red Cloth in Slipcase. Book condition: Good. Light rubbing to extremities. Edges bumped. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Slipcase - Fair. Rubbing and chipping to edges. William Farquhar Payson hardcover books
1926142351London: The Readers Library 1926. First printing of the UK photoplay edition originally published in 1846 by Michel Levy. <br/><br/>Basis for the 1926 film directed by Jacques Feyder and starring Raquel Meller. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket had a couple of tiny closed tears and light nicking to the extremities. The Readers Library unknown books
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
1920WRCLIT58713Berlin: Propylaen-Verlag 1920. Quarto. Publisher's original quarter calf and boards spine gilt extra upper board lettered in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial title plates and illustrations. Edges a bit rubbed with very shallow loss to calf at toe of spine a few faint marginal finger smudges light foxing to endleaves and edges old two letter annotation on free endsheet otherwise a very good copy. First edition in this format. Translated by Elfriede Willis and illustrated with twelve full-page and numerous in-text lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag 1880-1945. Apart from the lithographed pictorial title each of the other 11 full-page hors-text lithographs is signed in pencil in the lower margin by the artist. One of 450 numbered copies printed by Poeschel & Trepte in Leipzig. Propylaen-Verlag hardcover books
