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ROSTAND EDMOND (1868-1918)
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ROSTAND EDMOND (1868-1918)
Cyrano de Bergerac. Comédie héroïque en cinq actes en vers
Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898, accompanied by an autograph letter signed by the author. In-8, 2 bl. ff, green cover, L.A.S. and envelope mounted on tabs, 225 pp, 1 bl. ff, cover and spine preserved, 2 bl. ff. Half blue morocco with corners, spine with gold titles, marbled paper endpapers, gilt head, bookmark in tricolour cloth preserved.
First edition of Rostand's theatrical masterpiece, Cyrano de Bergerac. Copie on edition paper. This edition includes a signed autograph letter addressed to the playwright and academician Henri LAVEDAN (1859-1940), accompanied by a signed autograph letter (1 page in-12 in brown ink) addressed to the same author with its preserved envelope, mounted on tabs. "[...] I wanted to answer to the frankness of your friendship asking me the permission to vote for Masson in the 1st round by the most absolute discretion. [...]».
On the next page, an invitation cut out on blue paper for the Reception of Edmond Rostand which took place on June 4, 1903 at the Académie Française.
Written between 1896 and 1897, this dramatic comedy in five acts, written almost entirely in alexandrines, was premiered on December 28, 1897 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. It became the greatest theatrical success since Hernani. An unprecedented success: forty encores! The play will be performed 400 times from December 1897 to March 1899. Rostand was elected to the Académie française in 1901: he was received at the age of thirty-three, the youngest academician at the time.
PROVENANCE Librairie Pierre Chrétien (stamped bookmark)| Librairie Georges
Andrieux (bookmark)| Bibliothèque de Gérard de Berny (ex-libris), former senator of the IIIrd Republic| Henri Lavedan.
(Corners slightly dulled, covers rubbed, spine worn).
Cyrano de Bergerac. Comédie héroïque en cinq actes en vers
Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898, accompanied by an autograph letter signed by the author. In-8, 2 bl. ff, green cover, L.A.S. and envelope mounted on tabs, 225 pp, 1 bl. ff, cover and spine preserved, 2 bl. ff. Half blue morocco with corners, spine with gold titles, marbled paper endpapers, gilt head, bookmark in tricolour cloth preserved.
First edition of Rostand's theatrical masterpiece, Cyrano de Bergerac. Copie on edition paper. This edition includes a signed autograph letter addressed to the playwright and academician Henri LAVEDAN (1859-1940), accompanied by a signed autograph letter (1 page in-12 in brown ink) addressed to the same author with its preserved envelope, mounted on tabs. "[...] I wanted to answer to the frankness of your friendship asking me the permission to vote for Masson in the 1st round by the most absolute discretion. [...]».
On the next page, an invitation cut out on blue paper for the Reception of Edmond Rostand which took place on June 4, 1903 at the Académie Française.
Written between 1896 and 1897, this dramatic comedy in five acts, written almost entirely in alexandrines, was premiered on December 28, 1897 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. It became the greatest theatrical success since Hernani. An unprecedented success: forty encores! The play will be performed 400 times from December 1897 to March 1899. Rostand was elected to the Académie française in 1901: he was received at the age of thirty-three, the youngest academician at the time.
PROVENANCE Librairie Pierre Chrétien (stamped bookmark)| Librairie Georges
Andrieux (bookmark)| Bibliothèque de Gérard de Berny (ex-libris), former senator of the IIIrd Republic| Henri Lavedan.
(Corners slightly dulled, covers rubbed, spine worn).