Lot no. 75
FEYDEAU Georges. "Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue! "Comédie en un acte avec la mise en scène complète et conforme à la représentation. Paris, Librairie théâtrale, Artistique & Littéraire, 1914; in-8, [10]-78-[4] pp, midnight blue half-chagrin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head, cover and spine (Alix). First edition in bookshops of Feydeau's most famous play.
The large papers consist of one copy on Chine, 13 on Japon and 22 on Hollande.
F Exceptional copy, the only one on Chine, bearing the n° 1, printed especially for the author, anopistographe (i.e. printed on the recto only). It bears his ex-libris stamp drawn by him "Ceci j'ai eu G. Feydeau" and is enriched by a signed autograph letter of 3 pages in-12. While on holiday at his Normandy villa, Feydeau asks a friend to join him as soon as possible: Oh my friend, what a bore Villerville is! There isn't a cat and it's raining... He talks about Marcel Simon, his interpreter and close collaborator: ...Say a lot of things to Simon when you see him so that he writes to me!!! I'm not telling him to come to Villerville, I know he hates that country... - A very fine copy.
Talvart, V, 406.
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