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de Alarcon, Pedro Antonio; Armstrong, Martin (Translator); Brenan, Gerald (Introduction) : The Three-Cornered Hat: The True History of an Affair current in certain Tales and Ballads, here written down as & how it befell

The Limited Editions Club; The Plantin Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1959

Limited Edition, no. 634 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator and printed at the Plantin Press. Original publisher's multicolored cloth binding backed with black cloth in an orange paper-covered slipcase. Gilt lettering on book spine. Black spine label on slipcase. Cloth-covered boards have a silky texture. 7 3/4" x 11 1/2." 176 pages ([iv] v-xix, 1-154), complete. Thirty-four illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Two Limited Editions Club ephemera laid in: a notice and the club's monthly letter. Former owner's bookplate of Edwin P. Goodrich tipped in on front pastedown. Pages and covers of the book, slipcase, and ephemera are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. The paper notice has been detached (cut) along the spine. A Fine book in a Fine slipcase. A short story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891), a Spanish author best-known for this work. The Three-Corned Hat has been compared to Don Quixote and is about a host of fictional characters who live in a quaint Andalusian town. Among the characters, the miller Lucas, Lucas's wife Frasquita, the mayor Don Eugenio (known for his eponymous three-cornered hat), and Eugenio's wife Dona Mercedes. Printed on title page: "Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, en el Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles." Back colophon: "Of this edition of The Three-Cornered Hat fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles. The illustrations have been drawn by Roger Duvoisin, who here signs, ["Roger Duvoisin" in black ink], this copy, which is number 634." A Fine book in a Fine slipcase. Two pieces of paper ephemera laid in: corresponding four-page Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club (November 1959, Number 312) and a notice with the title, "Number 2," the latter of which is about the book's specifications. The following is an excerpt from the notice: "The second, in this Twenty-eighth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club, is The Three-Cornered Hat by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, with an introduction by Gerald Brenan. The thirty-four color and black-and-white illustrations have been drawn by Roger Duvoisin. The book has been designed, and the text and illustrations printed, by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press in Los Angeles, and they have chosen the sixteen-point size of Bembo for the text. The page size is 7 1/2" x 11 1/4 inches and there are 176 pages. The paper is Curtis Rag made specially for this edition by the Curtis Paper Company. The binding is a colorful fabric named, appropriately, Granada Tiles.". Illustr.: Duvoisin, Roger. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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