Elizabeth Abbott Translator (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). A very good book in a good dust jacket. Jacket has several tears. Sec 4C.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photo - Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. Yellow impressed pattern boards with white spine covering 1/2 of cover. Front cover has gold colored vertical demarcation line. Print is brown and gold-colored on spine. Contents are tight sound and unmarked. 277 pages including index. Dust jacket has rubbing on edges with tears and small sections missing in spine area. Sub- title, " Mozart's Librettist, Casanova's freind, first professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First Edition. Hardcover. In very good condition with a very good condition. Translated from the French by Elizabeth Abbott with illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. 221 pages. The anonymous French medieval classic translated into English here for the first time, a delightful satire of married life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First English Edition. 512 pp, stated first edition, list of b&w illustrations, introduction, The Memoirs of Lorenzo da Ponte: 5 Parts; index. Translated from the Italian by Elisabeth Abbott: First English Edition, 1929. 6.6" x 9.6" boards. Lightly frayed at fore-edge corner tips with minor edge wear to top and bottom spine edge, and age-toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Royal-blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. "Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's greatest operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte. With the death of Austrian Emperor Joseph II in 1790, Da Ponte lost his patron. He was formally dismissed from the Imperial Service in 1791, due to intrigues, receiving no support from the new Emperor, Leopold. In August 1792, not being able to return to Venice, from which he had been banished until the end of 1794, he set off for Paris via Prague and Dresden armed with a letter of recommendation to Queen Marie Antoinette her brother, the late Emperor, had given Da Ponte before his death. On the road to Paris, on learning about the worsening political situation in France and the arrest of the king and queen, he decided to head for London instead, accompanied by his companion Nancy Grahl (with whom he eventually had four children).[7] After a precarious start in England, exercising a number of jobs including that of grocer and Italian teacher, he became librettist at the King's Theatre, London, in 1803. He remained based in London undertaking various theatrical and publishing activities until 1805, when debt and bankruptcy caused him to flee to the United States in 1805 with Grahl and their children." Size: Large 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. R. Ben. Sussan (illustrator). First Edition. Two minor dust jacket closed tears. Out of print. Large quarto size. Color plates. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Text in English, French. xviii, 217, [5] p. 21 cm. Illustrations. Translation of Des deux rives de l'enfer. The author was an ex-Co-Co Chanel model who became a journalist/photographer. She reported on the death of Che Guevara. Whis work is her account of a visit to Vietnam where sheinteracted with both sides. She went on missions with U.S. forces. She was captured by the Viet Cong. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears and small chips. Presumed first U.S. English language edition/first printing.