Dinner With the Family
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1958. First Edition, First Printing.
Jean Anouilh's farce about a young man who rents a grand country house for a night and hires some actors to play his parents and a waiter to play the family butler. Why? To make the girl he loves believe that she's visiting his ancestral family home.
Anouilh's play, "Le Rendez-vous de Senlis," was first produced in Paris in 1937 and in the U.K. as "Dinner With the Family" in 1957 at the Oxford Playhouse and the New Theatre in London. Translated by Edward Owen Marsh, with a striking dust jacket designed by Harry More-Gordon.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7.5 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm), 98 pages, in red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
CONDITION: Near Fine with small stain to top edge in a Very Good dust jacket with soiling, shallow chipping and two closed tears. Price of 10s 6d present on front flap. SCARCE in unclipped dust jacket. Item #827
Price: $50.00