Three Cornered Hat True History Affair by Alarcon Don Pedro Antonio (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With tipped-in colour plates & attractive black and white illustration. Publishers black cloth blind-stamped gilt titles on spine. Page edges untrimmed. Minor wear to corners of boards & head / foot of spine. Very light foxing to prelims.

Red Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus Edition. Sound decent binding, free of wear, bright gilt to spine, minor fade along edges of cloth. Attractive laid effect paper, many line illus classical cartoon style art throughout. "Soho Library" uniform binding with orange/tan classical cherub and leaf motif artwork, the paper age browned, evenly so. Minor wear to top and bottom edges, un-price-clipped. 120pp. Size: 12mo.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Norman Tealby (illustrator). A crisp and tight copy. Lightly bumped board corners, else absolutely minimal wear.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Norman Tealby (illustrator). First Edition. Black cloth, gilt lettering. xiv + 129 pp., illus. w/ drawings, 4 tipped-in color plates. Slightly rubbed edges, virtually as issued. Dust jacket shows unusual die-cut sawtooth/serrated edges, lacking a few tips but otherwise respectably intact, lightly soiled, with an area of loss along bottom rear edge, now in mylar. A comic tale of Andalusia. Odd, fairly scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Lacking the dust jacket. Very good. Cover corners rubbed and bent. Small tear on spine tail. Spine ends worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Norman Tealby (illustrator). Large 8vo. xiv (ii), 129 (1) pp, illus. and with Four Tipped-in Color Prints. Now Translated out of the Spanish by Martin Armstrong: 1928. Inked name on front paste down. Light external wear with age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.75". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "One of the best-loved Spanish novels of all time, A hilarious tale of lust, intrigue and corrupt authorities set in eighteenth-century Andalusia. When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the formidable - and formidably desirable - Senora Frasquita, the wife of a local miller, the couple set about foiling his plans for a seduction. There ensues a fast-paced comedy of moonlight flits, clothes swapping, mistaken identity, and slapstick accidents as the characters struggle in vain to maintain both dignity and marital harmony. Calm is eventually restored in a scene of unmasking and mutual forgiveness of truly operatic proportions." Size: Large Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Norman Tealby (illustrator). Verso has copyright date of 1927, title page has date of 1928 printed at botom of page. Frontis color illustration tipped in. xiv, [2], 129, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Somewhat shaken. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 - 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, author of the novel El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat, 1874). The story is an adaptation of a popular tradition and provides a lively picture of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897) and Manuel deFalla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919). Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitan Venero ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escandalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays. Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Granda. In 1859, he served in a Spanish military operation in Morocco. He gained his first literary recognition with A Witnerss' Diary of the African War (1859-1860), a patriotic account of the campaign. One of the best-loved Spanish novels of all time, "The Three-Cornered Hat" is a hilarious tale of lust, intrigue, and corruption set in 18th-century Andalusia. When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the formidable--and formidably desirable--Senora Frasquita, the wife of the local miller, the couple sets about foiling his plans for a seduction. There ensues a fast-paced comedy of moonlight flits, clothes swapping, mistaken identity, and slapstick mishaps as the characters struggle in vain to maintain both dignity and marital harmony. Calm is eventually restored in a scene of unmasking and mutual forgiveness of truly operatic proportions. Pedro Alarcon is one of Spain's most prominent writers. He is chiefly remembered for his subtly ironic plots and quintessentially Spanish settings and characterizations.

Hardcover. Norman Tealby (illustrator). 1st Edition. 129p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Former owner's signature on front free endpaper. One tipped-in plate is missing. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket, originally designed with jagged, teeth-like edges, has some small pieces chipped off, and the spine is tanned. Small hole in spine as well. Otherwise intact. A Spanish classic translated into English by Martin Armstrong. Illustrated by Norman Tealby.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Norman Tealby (illustrator). 129pp/illus. This vintage story of mating and courtship comes with several lovely, tipped-in color plates, and many more b&w drawings. Tealby's gnarled, intricate characters give the story a Beardsley-esque quality. Clean.

Translated out of the Spanish by Martin Armstrong. xvi, 130 pp. With Illustrations by Norman Tealby. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, with a portion of the dust jacket laid in. A near fine copy with very slight wear at the top of the spine.

ALARCON, Don Pedro Antonio de. The Three-Cornered Hat. The True History of an Affair Current in Certain Tales and Ballads, Here Written Down As and How It Befell.Now Translated Out of the Spanish by Martin Armstrong. With an Introduction by Gerald Brenan and Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. 4to. Orig. cloth-backed silk-covered boards in publisher's slipcase. Los Angeles: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Plantin Press, en el Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles, 1959. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. A fine copy.