Author: MERIMEE, Prosper
Title: Carmen
Description: New York, Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hardcover. Quarto (8-3/8" x 11") bound in bright and colorful hand-blocked gypsy silk cloth. Illustrated with 37 beautiful ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS in color drawn on the plates by Jean Charlot. Copy #1058 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Perhaps the most stunning and underrated of the early books from the press. Ill.: Jean Charlot. Bookplate on front pastedown, slight foxing and faint tape stains to endpapers; spine a little sunned, as often the case. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase with minor splitting .

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Color Plates, Signed, French Literature, LEC, Jean Charlot, Opera, Original Lithographs Jean Charlot. Signed Limited Editions Club Original Lithographs Illustrated Books


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