GIRAUDOUX (Jean).

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2500 - 3000 EUR
GIRAUDOUX (Jean).
Siegfried. Play in four acts. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1928. In-12, midnight blue morocco, boards symmetrically decorated with a large geometrical composition of triangles and lozenges in bright blue glossy paper and box mastic delimited by straight palladium fillets, smooth spine with gilt title, gilt head, untrimmed, double cover and spine (P.-L. Martin 1956). First edition. Giraudoux's first play, based on his novel Siegfried et le Limousin, was performed at Louis Jouvet's theatre on 3 May 1928. It marked the beginning of the collaboration between the author and the director, who remained faithful to each other in absolute mutual trust and esteem. It was a brilliant success. With Siegfried, Giraudoux made a sensational entry among the great playwrights, as attested to by the eulogistic remarks of André Antoine, the undisputed leader of realist theatre in France at the time: "The arrival in the theatre of M. Jean Giraudoux is an event that will have profound repercussions on the current dramatic movement" (cf. Jean Giraudoux: du réel à l'imaginaire, 1982, pp. 69-78). One of 88 copies on Arches vellum, this one n°2. A very fine copy in a decorated binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin, who combines, with his usual mastery, in his constructions of "economical" bindings morocco and various glossy papers.
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