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A very RARE and beautiful book..."Carmen" embellished by the wonderful illustrations by Rene Bull...First edition with these illustrations hard back binding in publisher's original venetian red buckram covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt theatre drapes and Japanese fan to the front cover, top edge gilt, grey and white silhouette matador illustrated end sheets. Mérimée is best known for this novella Carmen, which became the basis of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. Contains [ix], 203 printed pages of text with with 16 intricate full-page colour plates with lettered paper guards, and 74 large monochrome illustrations throughout. Externally spine dulled,  boards a bit soiled, shelfwear. Inside light stains but overall clean. Illustrations present with tissue guards in very good condition.
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