Title: Tresor de la Poesie Populaire Francaise.
Description: Lausanne [Switzerland]: Guilde du Livre, (1954). (1954). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JEAN ANOUILH - Small quarto [approximately 9-3/8 inches high by 7 inches wide], pictorial light gray cloth with playful illustrations & vignettes in green, red & black on both covers & the spine. The binding is soiled with the spine slightly darkened. The corners of the covers are lightly creased with the top corners slightly frayed. 461 & [5] pages plus colophon. There are tiny chips and/or small creases to the front edges of pages 73-161. There are a few small stains to the book's fore-edge & top edge. Good.
First edition.
Inscribed by Jean Anouilh on the half-title: "Pour 'la bonne voisine' avec les sentiments amicaux de son voisin / Jean Anouilh / 25 December 60". Additionally inscribed by the brother of Honoria Plesch on the facing blank: ""Anouilh's 'bonne voisine' in Switzerland was my sister Honoria Plesch. / Peter H. Plesch".
Jean Anouilh [1910-1987] was a French playwright whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, he is best known for his 1943 adaptation of Sophocles' "Antigone". The play was seen as an attack on Marshal Petain's Vichy government. Anouilh was one of France's most prolific writers in the postwar period. Much of his work addresses themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
Costume designer Honoria Plesch [1919-1990] was born in Berlin. In 1933, together with her brother Peter and her family, she left Germany and emigrated to England. Her most important professional assignment was as costume designer for the 1947 film "Brighton Rock" starring Richard Attenborough. Plesch was apparently Anouilh's neighbor for a time in Switzerland.
The text is in French. Good .
Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; FRENCH THEATRE; FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT; FRENCH DRAMATIST; JEAN ANOUILH; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FRENCH POETRY; TRESOR DE LA POESIE POPULAIRE FRANCAISE; CLAUDE ROY, EDITOR; CLAIRE VERVIN; COSTUME DESIGNER; HONORIA PLESCH; FIRS
- Book number: 35991
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