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Carmen : an opera in four acts / taken from the story of Prosper Merimée ; the original libretto by H. Meilhac and L. Halévy ; new English version by John and Ada Galsworthy.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875.
- Standardized Title:
- Carmen. Libretto. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Librettos.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Librettos.
- Penn Provenance:
- Galsworthy, Ada, -1956 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Kapell, William (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Judson, Arthur (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 80 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Paulton (Somerset and London : Made and printed in England by Purnell and Sons)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Elkin Mathews and Marrot ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "This edition consists of 650 numbered copies, signed by both tranlators, of which nos. 1 to 600 are for sale ... and nos. 601 to 650 for presentation and review"--P. [ii]
- "In making this version of the original French libretto of 'Carmen' as used in the Choudens score, we have rendered the text freely, but have taken no real liberties ... This has been a labour of love with us, in the hope of increasing, if only a little, the ever-fresh enjoyment which wells out of this great, this most dramatic and melodious opera."--Translators' Foreword.
- White cloth spine lettered in black; red boards lettered and decorated in silver on front cover. Red endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. 418 signed by Ada Galsworthy and John Galsworthy.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is no. 514 signed by Ada Galsworthy and John Galsworthy.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjackets retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription on half t.p.: "To Mr. Arthur Judson - with great appreciation and sincere friendship. William Kapell".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is no. 580 signed by Ada Galsworthy and John Galsworthy.
- OCLC:
- 228683186
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