[Binding, Fine- Unsigned] Cyrano de Bergerac, A Play in Five Acts

London: William Heinemann, 1919.

First Edition. 12mo, 294pp. Beautifully bound in full black crushed morocco with elegant and very detailed gilt-tooled stem and leaf design work on both covers and spine, including gilt stippling, side-edge gilt ruling and dots. Gilt dentelles, marbled endsheets. AEG. Edmond Rostand (1868-1918), French poet and dramatist associated with the neo-romantic movement, is best know for his 1897 play, which is presented here in a wonderfully bound 1919 edition by Heinemann, with an actor pictured in the frontispiece, and printed on fine paper. In contemporaneous cloth slipcase. The book is in fine condition.

Price: $675.00   Item #6557