Prã Vost Abbe (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. No Jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Good+, sound copy. Hardback. xxxix, 262pp. Translated from the original text of 1731 by Helen Wadell. Introduction by George Saintsbury. Quarter bound in beige cloth with papers to boards. To spine a leather label lettered in gilt. 1931 in gilt to the tail of the spine. an attractive edition. Some spotting to the spine. Scattered foxing throughout else very clean. Label is a little rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Patchy fading to cloth boards. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Two titles in one volume, "Manon Lescaut" by Abbà Prà vost; "Carmen" by Prosper Mà rimà e. xv, [1], 216 pages + 8 pages advertisements. Red cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine, blind-stamped publisher's device in middle of front board. Page dimensions: 171 x 109mm. Binding style 2, endpapers style 1, dust-jacket version 2 (with lighthouse on dust-jacket spine, issued 1928-1932) [reference: J. Anderson, "Collecting Everyman's Library" (website).]; Everyman's Library. No. 834.…

First edition thus of Helen Wadell's translation of the seventh and final volume of Mà moires et aventures d'un homme de qualità which was adapted into the famous opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini. Quarto, bound in half morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated by Pierre Brissaud. Translated by Helen Waddell. In fine condition.…