Paris: La Table Ronde, 1959. Mass-market paperback INSCRIBED on the half title to Holly Howarth, who has translated and written about Jean Anouilh's works. This is one of Anouilh's best-known plays, which explores the relationship between King Henry II of England and the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas à..... More
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..... More
![Item #787 Pièces Brillantes [Brilliant Plays]. Jean Anouilh](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/787_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763323864)
Paris: La Table Ronde, 1965. Later printing. A collection of plays INSCRIBED on the half title by Jean Anouilh: "Pour le Docteur Paul Robert, Jean Anouilh, Nov. '69." The plays are: L'Invitation au Chateau; Colombe; La Répetition ou l'amour puni; and Cécile ou l'école des pères. Text entirely..... More
![Item #786 Pièces Costumées [Costumed Plays]. Jean Anouilh](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/786_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763323864)
Paris: La Table Ronde, 1967. Later printing. A collection of plays INSCRIBED by Jean Anouilh on the half title: "Pour le Docteur Paul Robert, Jean Anouilh, Nov. 69." The book features three of Anouilh's most famous plays: L'Alouette, Becket ou l'Homme de Dieu, and La Foire d'Empoigne. Text..... More
![Item #789 Pièces Grinçantes [Grating Plays]. Jean Anouilh](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/789_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763323864)
Paris: La Table Ronde, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of plays INSCRIBED by Jean Anouilh on the half title: "Pour ce gamin de Claude Sainval souvenir de la representation d'adieux de son ainè. Affectuesement, Jean Anouilh, 10 Janvier 62." ("For this kid of Claude Sainval, a memory of..... More
![Item #785 Pièces Noires [Black Plays]. Jean Anouilh](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/785_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763323864)
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..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1961. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Jean Anouilh's comedy about the artificial manners and wasted lives of a French count and his fellow aristocrats who amuse themselves by rehearsing a play in the count's castle. This is an English translation of La Répétition..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1958. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Jean Anouilh's romantic comedy about a handsome prince, a beautiful hat maker, and a scheming dutchess. Time Remembered opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York on November 12, 1957, and starred Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg, and Richard..... More
![Item #788 Pieces Roses [Rose Plays]. Pierre Anouilh](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/788_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763323864)
Paris: La Table Ronde, 1966. Later printing. Collection of plays INSCRIBED on the half title by Jean Anouilh: "Pour le Docteur Paul Robert, Jean Anouilh, Nov. 69." The plays are: Humulus le Muet; Le Bal des Voleurs; Le Rendez-Vous de Senlis; and Léocadia. Text entirely in French... More
[Paris]: Mercure de France, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED on the half title by Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) to Algerian-French poet and translator Jean-Pierre Attal (1931-2014): "Pour Jean-Pierre Attal, ces poèmes de Keats et Leopardi pour le traducteur et l'ami de la poésie qu'il est également, avec l'amitié, Yves Bonnefoy."..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Jean Genet's last play, set during the Algerian war and featuring more than 50 characters in 17 scenes. The play was first published as "Les Paravents." It was produced for the first time in June 1961 at..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 5 3/4 x 9 inches, (145 x 230 mm), 400 pages, in contemporary blue half calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled end papers. Boards rubbed and soiled, spine faded, some page edges lightly toned. A Very Good copy in a handsome..... More
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1970]. Later printing. INSCRIBED, dated (1980), and signed by Eugène Ionesco on the half title. Collection of short stories from the writer most associated with the theatre of the absurd. 8vo, 238 pages, in wrappers. Mild toning, rubbing, and some faint soiling. Otherwise, clean and sound. A Very..... More
Paris: Le Cherche Midi Éditeur, 1998. Transcripts of discussions between Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-ki (1920-2013) and seven interviewers: Claude Martin (diplomat), France Huser (journalist), Robert Frélaut (print maker), Claude Delay-Tubiana (writer and psychoanalyst), François Trèves (businessman and collector), Agnès Varda (film director), and Bernard Noël (poet). All interviews are in..... More
Genève: Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie. 1997. First Edition. Scarce booklet issued in connection with a 1997 exhibition in Geneva. Black-and-white illustrations, texts in French by Maria-Gaetana Matisse, I.M. Pei, and Françoise Marquet. Invitation card laid in. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (10 x 5 3/8 inches; 255..... More
Paris: Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2018. Booklet issued for an exhibition of Zao Wou-ki's large-scale works, held June 4, 2018-January 6, 2019, at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. The booklet contains color photos of some of the paintings; text in..... More
Paris: GLM, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED to James Joyce biographer Richard Ellmann: "Avec les mauvaises visages d'un vrai ami. H. Michaux." ("With the bad faces of a real friend.") One of 550 numbered copies on Vélin Blanc paper. There were also 30 copies on Normandy. Belgian-French..... More
![Item #2825 Pas de Barbare en Asie! [Cover title]; Henri Michaux / Zao Wou-ki: Une Recontre-Une...](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2825_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709507521)
Paris: Galerie Thessa Herold, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Scarce catalogue for an exhibition of paintings by two old friends, Henri Michaux and Zao Wou-ki. Images are interspersed with texts by the two artists. The cover title -- Pas de Barbare en Asie! -- is a reference to Michaux's 1933..... More