Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 445
ROSTAND, Edmond (1868?1918). Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris: Libr...
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ROSTAND, Edmond (1868?1918). Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris: Libraire et Fasquelle/Eug?ne Fasquelle, 1898. 8vo. x, [13]?225 pp., with preliminary and terminal blanks. Rebound in blue linen (ca. 1942), gilt lettered pebbled leather spine label (few spots of rubbing), foot of spine stamped with previous owner?s name in gilt, decorative endpapers (light sunning to extremities, marginal toning throughout, sig. [R4] reinserted on stub). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, one of 50 copies printed on Japon paper. Provenance: Victoria I. Teodor (spine stamp and dated ownership signature on half-title). The author?s influential and enduring popular verse play in five acts and the fictionalization of the real life Cyrano de Bergerac as it follows the broad outlines of his life.
