Johnson a E Trans (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Full red cloth with gilt lettering & decoration, top edge gilt, grey illustrated endpapers, 11" x 8-1/2", color plates with tissue guards, 203 pp. All plates present. Spine gilt darkened, minor fading to covers. An attractive copy, with a vintage bookseller's label to rear endpapers (Stewart & Kidd, Cincinnati). Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.…

Translated by A. E. Johnson. ix, 203 [1] pp. Illustrated in color and black and white by Rene Bull. 4to, publisher's red gilt-decorated cloth. Old ink gift inscription on half-title; spine slightly sunned; light use to cloth at extremities.

Sm quarto, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 203pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate scuffing & fraying to board & spine edges, moderate fading/discolouration to spine, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, basic/plain gift plate tp ffep, light to moderate cracking & foxing to gutters throughout- boards sl shaky).…

Translated from the French by A. E. Johnson. xi, 200 pp. With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, including six tipped-in color illustrations. 4to, publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth with applied color illustration on front panel, in publisher's two-part illustrated box. A bright, fine copy. The top of the two-part box is stained, with light use at extremities.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A limited edition work, signed by the illustrator, this is a wonderful and scarce first edition of Rene Bull's illustrated edition of Prosper Merimee's 'Carmen'. With colour plates. A scarce signed limited edition work, the first edition of this work to be translated into English by A. E. Johnson and to be illustrated by Rene Bull. No. 66 of 100 limited edition copies, signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen fine colour plates, each with descriptive tissue guard, together with seventy-four black and white illustrations in the text. Collated, complete. 1919 inscription to a front blank. A beautifully illustrated edition of Mérimée's 'Carmen', the novella that inspired Georges Bizet's opera. In the publisher's original paper vellum with gilt detailing. Significant handling marks to binding, with is age toned. Shelf wear to back strip tail. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Inscription to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd light handling mark or spot. Significant loss to one tissue guard. Very Good. Rene Bull (illustrator). signed by author. book.…