zogheb bernard (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 36. Text in Italian. From the Athens library of Alan Ansen- 5 small corrections in text, likely to be in the hand of Merrill. 300 copies printed. Rather used and marked copy, slight soiling also at prelims but otherwise with clean text.

First edition. Lilac-colored wrappers. Square 8vo. Printed in black and red. Edition of 300 copies. About very good copy, crease and bump in lower corner of front wrapper, carrying through book and getting fainter toward the rear. Frontispiece drawing by the author and dingbats of an old-fashioned grammophone in the text. The author was an Arab Christian of Syrian-Lebanese origin and a native of the once cosmopolitan city of Alexandria who spent his middle years out of Egypt. The libretto is in a deformed "kitchen Italian" that was spoken to and among servants of the mercantile class of that city (much, we suppose, like the kitchen Spanish in many restaurants today). de Zogheb's linguistically inventive operettas were appreciated by James Merrill, and as a result two were performed in New York in the 1960s. The present operetta finally had its world premiere in the 2009 Biennale di Venezia.

Zustand: Good. 1963. Limited Edition. 36 pages. Signed by the author. Blue paper cover with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author with dedication to Suzy and John on dedication page. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pen annotations and marginalia to a few pages. Thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning to covers. Visible wear marks to covers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Foreword by James Merrill. Quarto. 15pp. Stapled red and white pictorial wrappers. Covers are slightly creased and faintly toned, a very good copy. Merrill was also involved in the original production of *Vacanze a Parigi*, first performed by The Little Players during 1969, similar to his participation in the publication of Bernard de Zogheb's *Le Sorelle Bronte,* which was published in an edition of 300 copies by Tibor de Nagy in 1961. Contains a two-page Foreword by James Merrill about Bernard de Zogheb and this production. Merrill's introduction is a revised text of his introduction to the original production of Bernard de Zogheb's *Vacanze a Parigi* first performed by The Little Players in 1969. A very scarce publication. *OCLC* lists a single holding at the Morgan Library.

paperback. Zustand: very good(+). First. Foreword by James Merill. 35pp., square 8vo, printed lavender wrappers (edges faded), partially unopend; stapled . New York: Tibor de Nagy, (1963). Limited First Edition. The text of this scarce libretto is in Italian. Presentation, in Italian, to Francis Steegmuller, signed "J.M." with a few holograph textual corrections in the same hand.One of 300 copies.

One of three hundred copies. One of three hundred copies. Frontispiece of the Brontë sisters by the author. [12], 35, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Whimsical operetta of the Brontë sisters, by the Alexandrian artist and librettist Bernard de Zogheb (1924-1999), who was one of the last survivors of the cosmopolitan Alexandria of an earlier age. "But beyond his work as an artist, it is arguably Bernard's comic operettas that are his most outstanding achievement. Set to popular tunes, the libretti are written in Bernard's 'kitchen Italian,' with much tongue-in-cheek ventriloquism of the mannerisms and verbal macaronics typical of Mediterranean cities, particularly Alexandria. Often in these operettas the conventions of high art are rendered in camp [.] Originally written for the consumption of his circle of friends, Bernard's operettas caught the attention of the late American poet James Merrill. It was thanks to Merrill that the Little Players, a puppet theatre company in New York, had two of them performed in the late '60s and early '70s. The memory of the performances of Le Vacanze a Parigi (The Vacation in Paris), and Phaedra, adapted from Racine, was an abiding source of pride to Bernard" (Hala Halim, in Al-Ahram, 1999). From Merrill's foreword: "The reader will search in vain for the gloomy, introspective Brontës . In their place, three wild extroverts ride the familiar Mediterranean pendulum between the most lavish endearments and the coarsest recriminations." Playfully inscribed by Merrill to a long-time friend and admirer, bookseller and collector Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop: "al fedele lettore sconosciuto Robert Wilson - Salui cordiali dell' editore, James Merrill". Hagstrom B11 Original violet wrappers, printed in black. Some fading at edges of wrappers. Very good copy of a scarce work, inscribed by the editor, James Merrill, and with four corrections to the text in Merrill?s hand Frontispiece of the Brontë sisters by the author. [12], 35, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed.