GIRAUDOUX (Jean).

Lot 122
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1500 - 2000 EUR
GIRAUDOUX (Jean).
Amphytrion 38. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1929. In-12, navy blue chagrin, jansenist, interior gilt roulette, gilt head, untrimmed, double cover and spine (A.-J. Gonon). First edition. One of 68 copies on Arches vellum, specially printed for the author and his friends. Nominative copy, printed for Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), bearing this letter signed by the author: à Jouvet, ce Jouvet-Giraudoux n°2, affectueusement. Jean Giraudoux. Perfect provenance. Indeed, this play marks the second collaboration between the two men. Louis Jouvet, who had successfully directed and acted in Siegfried the previous year, premiered Amphytrion 38 at the theater of Champs-Élysées on November 8, 1929; he played the role of Mercury. Copy of Louis Jouvet, with his ex-libris (2005, n°102)
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