Merrimee Prosper (3 results)

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Parisian society during the 1830s; introduction by Douglas Parmee, the translator, and chronology of the author's life. Offsetting to prelims, else fine in dustwrapper sunned on spine and the top end of the rear panel. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Later Printing. Near Fine, light foxing to endpages and edges of pageblock, prior owner name in pencil front pastedown. Originally published in 1889. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Merrimee is best known for his novella Carmen, on which Bizet based his opera of the same name. Book.

Leather and Marbled Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Limited and Numbered Edition. Colomba published 1921, Carmen,1923. both from a limited edition of 1600 copies, Colomba #5, Carmen # 639. Both bound in lovely period brown leather and marbled boards, 4 raised bands, titles and top edges gilt, marbled end pages, ribbon markers, both Near Fine, slight rubbing to edges of leather, both with intriguing period bookplates, a bit of marginal toning throughout. The novella Carmen was the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. Text in French. A handsome set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.