Item #785 Pièces Noires [Black Plays]. Jean Anouilh.
Pièces Noires [Black Plays]

Pièces Noires [Black Plays]

Paris: La Table Ronde, 1966. Later printing.

A collection of plays INSCRIBED by Jean Anouilh on the half title: "Pour le docteur Paul Robert dont l'amitié héroïque pour ce théâtre à travers tous les pièges du destin me touche beaucoup. Bien sympathiquement. Jean Anouilh, Avril 70." (To Dr. Paul Robert, whose heroic friendship for this theatre through all the pitfalls of fate deeply touches me. With kind regards. Jean Anouilh, April 70.)

The plays in this collection are L'Hermine, La Sauvage, Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, and Eurydice.

Copies inscribed by Anouilh are scarce to the market, especially when the inscriptions are as heartfelt as this one.

PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 x 5.25 inches; 205 x 135 mm), 538, [6], pages, in cream-colored cloth, spine with four raised bands, front cover illustrated with a vignette drawn by Jean Denis Malclès (hard cover).

CONDITION: Light sunning to top edge of spine. Near Fine.

. Item #785

Price: $275.00

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