Labbe Prevost Austen John (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Austen (illustrator). 1st Edition Limited Edition. PRÉVOST, l'Abbé [Antoine François]. Manon Lescaut. Translated from the French with an Introduction by J. Lewis May. Decorations by John Austen. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. Royal Quarto. Quarter vellum and blue cloth boards. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. [vi], x, 144 pp., with coloured frontispiece and 11 further colour plates, black-and-white title page vignette, pictorial head and tailpieces, and decorative blue border to title, all text, and colophon throughout. First edition thus. Number 488 of 500 numbered copies. Manon Lescaut first appeared in 1731 as the seventh and final volume of Prévost's sprawling Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité, a modest enough origin for one of the most enduring stories in European literature. The tale of the Chevalier des Grieux and his catastrophic passion for Manon a young woman of great charm and no moral compunction, whose capacity to love and to deceive seem to exist in her in equal measure struck readers from the first as something qualitatively different from the fiction around it: more honest about desire, more ruthless about consequence, more modern in its treatment of money as the mediating force in human relationships. It was seized and condemned in Paris, which ensured its popularity. It has been set as an opera twice, by Massenet and by Puccini, and it remains in print in dozens of languages nearly three centuries after its composition. John Austen brings to it twelve colour plates of considerable charm, their languorous, mannered beauty in perfect sympathy with the novel's own atmosphere of gilded ruin. Good to very good. Some markings to vellum. Spine a trifle darkened. Very mild rubbing and toning to cover corners. Binding sound: square and tight. Contents good with foxing and toning present throughout, stronger to preliminaries.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. John Austen (illustrator). #364/500cc, signed by the illustrator John Austen. Covers shelfworn. Some foxing throughout, mostly along the edges.

With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. ix, 142 pp. Illustrated by John Austen. Folio, publisher's vellum-backed blue boards. First edition with these illustrations; No. 82 of 500 copies signed by John Austen. Some foxing to a few margins and fore-edge; spine lightly soiled and bumped at extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback, blue cloth covered boards with cream to spine. Slight darkening to cover edges. Some foxing to page edges and endpapers. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Quarter Vellum Over Blue Cloth Boards. t.e.g. Twelve Full Page Colour Plates. A Very Good Book. Spotting Which is Heavier to Prelims. Slight Soiling to Boards. No Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. If You Require Any Further Information or Images Please Click On 'Ask Bookseller a Question' Link. Heavy Item - Will Require Additional Shipping Costs on Overseas Orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Austen (illustrator). Numbered, limited edition. The scandalous eighteenth century romantic novel set in Paris and Louisiana. This edition has been illustrated, in colour and monochrome, by John Austen and published in a numbered limited edition of 500 copies. Internally very good, quarter bound in blue cloth with vellum spine which is a little marked at its head and near the top hinge. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. T.E.G. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: g. John Austen (illustrator). Sm. folio. ix,142pp. Half vellum over blue cloth boards with gold title on spine. Some staining and discoloration to vellum. Corners rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Color frontispiece. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text or plates. From the French of L'Abbe Prevost. A wonderful edition of this famous novel. Illustrated with reproductions of color-and b/w drawings by John Austen. Each page has blue border decorations. Introduction by J. Lewis May. Overall good condition.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good. John Austen (illustrator). First edition. Brightly illustrated with plates by John Austen, this is a wonderful Limited Edition of L'Abbe Prevost's romantic tale. A beautifully illustrated, Limited Edition English translation of this mid seventeenth century novel by L'Abbe Prevost. The first edition thus, being the first of this translation, and the first with these illustrations.The limitation leaf, which should identify this as one of 500 copies and be signed by Austen, has been removed.Illustrated with twelve charming colour plates fromJohn Austen, who was particularly recognised for the Art Deco influences present in his work.Collated, complete.A wonderful edition of the controversial tale of Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut, a work initially banned in France upon publication. In the publisher's original quarter vellum binding, with cloth covered boards. Minor bump to back strip head, otherwise externally fine. Internally, firmly bound, but with limitation leaf removed. Pages bright, but with spotting and instances of foxing throughout. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. John Austen (illustrator). First Edition. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/4") bound in blue cloth with a white vellum spine. Introduction by J. Lewis May. Frontispiece and 11 other color plates along with 26 in-text illustrations by John Austen, with a decorative border on each page. Copy #325 of 500 SIGNED by the artist on the limitation page. Light soiling to spine. Near Fine.

With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. ix, 142 [1] pp. With decorations by John Austen. Folio, publisher's quarter vellum and blue buckram boards, t.e.g. No. 320 of 500 copies signed by John Austen. A few spots of extremely light marginal foxing; slight use to binding; a tight, sound, attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. John Austen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Lettered copy 'D' signed by Geoffrey Bles on a hand written limitation page which reads: 'Of this edition 500 numbered copies and 20 lettered copies have been printed. This "D". Geoffrey Bles'. Stunning deco illustrations by Austen. One of the great masterpieces by this illustrator/designer, using his sensual style to great effect. Colour and black and white. Slightly scuffed half leather gilt spine, with blue buckram boards. Some fxing to some pages, but that is usual with this issue. No jacket, as issued. 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Austen, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Limited Numbered First Edition. Signed by Author & Illustrator John Austen. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. #134/500 copies. Red boards w/ clearplastic cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s).