COURTELINE (Georges).

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2500 - 3000 EUR
COURTELINE (Georges).
Boubouroche. Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1893. In-12, bronze bradel chagrin, jansenist, inner lace, untrimmed, cover and spine (Lefort). First edition. The play, adapted from an eponymous short story, was performed on April 27, 1893 by the Théâtre-Libre troupe: it is Courteline's first great success in the theatre. Precious copy by Sacha Guitry, bearing this signed letter: To Sacha Guitry, with all my affections, this first edition which is not much better than the second. Courteline, 1923. It is enriched with a very important file on the subject of the short story and the play, consisting of corrected proofs and autographs: - The corrected proofs of the short story (38 pages). - The corrected proofs of the play (56 pages). - An autograph manuscript by Courteline (5 pages in-4 on school paper) giving the order and progress of the volume (short story, play, foreword, notes and variants). - The corrected proofs of a new or much-revised text, giving the history of the play, reworking the first version of the short story with numerous autograph corrections, etc. (in all 50 pages in-8). (in all 50 pages in-8). - A long autograph manuscript by Courteline (6 pages glued in a strip), telling in the form of a hilarious pseudo-interview the origin of the plot of Boubouroche: Great lovers of good beer, Zacotte, Catulle and I used to go every evening to drink a few bocks at the Cul de Bouteille of the Chateaudun crossroads where Marcel Schwob used to come and join us, as well as Léopold Stevens escorted by Eugénie Buffet then in the full bloom of her popularity. Suzanne Mante, still very young and already radiantly beautiful, was also often with us, as well as our dear Léon Dierx and Antoine who, almost every evening, coming down from the top of the rue Blanche, calmed in our company a burning thirst gained from the sound of the rehearsals [...]. Such is the origin of the tale and the play that I owe to Catulle Mendès for having written. I owe him many other things, Lord! I owe him everything, quite simply, from the money I have in my pocket to the little French I speak. I will never tell him too much. The set, of remarkable interest, is presented in a modern brown half-maroquin folder, with a flap wallet containing the proofs and autographs, the book being placed in a compartment provided for that purpose. Darkened spine.
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