Author: (Gill,Andre; Regamey; Grasset). Murger, Henri.
Title: La Vie Boheme. Bound Together with: Le Pays Latin and with le Souper Des Funerailles.
Description: [Paris]: Librairie Illustree, [1877]. [1877]. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 7 inches wide], marbled green & black paper covered boards backed with blue cloth & with paper labels on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped & the marbled paper is chipped. The rear joint & the top half of the front joint are split with the rear board nearly detached. The head of the spine is torn & the tail is chipped. The labels are darkened, chipped & mostly unreadable. 550 & [1] pages. Illustrated with 69 colored plates, including the pictorial title, & with decorative black-and-white borders on each text page. The pastedowns & rear blank are darkened & stained & there is light staining & foxing to the title page. The page edges are darkened with the top page corners slightly bumped. There is some offsetting from the plates to the text pages & from the text pages to the verso of the plates. Good. First edition with these illustrations. There is one plate for each of the 69 livraisons. Each plate is a colored wood engraving. The first twelve are by Andre Gill. The remainder are by Regamey. The decorative borders on each page of text are by Grasset. The text for "La Vie de Boheme" [first published 1847-49] is on pages 1-303. This is followed by "Le Pays Latin" [first published 1851] on pages 305-501 and "Le Souper des Funerailles" [first published posthumously 1873] on pages 502-550. French novelist and poet Henri Murger [1822-1861] is best known as the author of "La Vie Boheme", the basis of Puccini's and Leoncavallo's operas, both titled "La Boheme". Murger's novel was drawn from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Paris attic. He was a member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" because they could not afford wine. Good .
Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATORS; PLATES; COLOR WOOD ENGRAVINGS; ANDRE GILL; REGAMEY; GRASSET; LITERATURE; NOVEL; HENRY MURGER; LA VIE BOHEME; LE PAYS LATIN; LE SOUPER DES FUNERAILLES; FIRST EDITION THUS; 1ST EDITION THUS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.
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Title: La Vie Boheme. Bound Together with: Le Pays Latin and with le Souper Des Funerailles.
Description: [Paris]: Librairie Illustree, [1877]. [1877]. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 7 inches wide], marbled green & black paper covered boards backed with blue cloth & with paper labels on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped & the marbled paper is chipped. The rear joint & the top half of the front joint are split with the rear board nearly detached. The head of the spine is torn & the tail is chipped. The labels are darkened, chipped & mostly unreadable. 550 & [1] pages. Illustrated with 69 colored plates, including the pictorial title, & with decorative black-and-white borders on each text page. The pastedowns & rear blank are darkened & stained & there is light staining & foxing to the title page. The page edges are darkened with the top page corners slightly bumped. There is some offsetting from the plates to the text pages & from the text pages to the verso of the plates. Good. First edition with these illustrations. There is one plate for each of the 69 livraisons. Each plate is a colored wood engraving. The first twelve are by Andre Gill. The remainder are by Regamey. The decorative borders on each page of text are by Grasset. The text for "La Vie de Boheme" [first published 1847-49] is on pages 1-303. This is followed by "Le Pays Latin" [first published 1851] on pages 305-501 and "Le Souper des Funerailles" [first published posthumously 1873] on pages 502-550. French novelist and poet Henri Murger [1822-1861] is best known as the author of "La Vie Boheme", the basis of Puccini's and Leoncavallo's operas, both titled "La Boheme". Murger's novel was drawn from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Paris attic. He was a member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" because they could not afford wine. Good .
Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATORS; PLATES; COLOR WOOD ENGRAVINGS; ANDRE GILL; REGAMEY; GRASSET; LITERATURE; NOVEL; HENRY MURGER; LA VIE BOHEME; LE PAYS LATIN; LE SOUPER DES FUNERAILLES; FIRST EDITION THUS; 1ST EDITION THUS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 16676
- Book number: 16676
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