*HERVIEU (Paul). - Lot 178

Lot n° 178
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*HERVIEU (Paul). - Lot 178
*HERVIEU (Paul). Le Réveil. Play in three acts, in prose. - L'Énigme. Play in two acts, in prose. Paris : Alphonse Lemerre, 1906. - In-18, 184 x 126 : (4 ff. 2 first blanks), 265 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Havana morocco jansenist, spine ribbed with a gilt mark on the last box, framed in havana morocco inside, decorated with 7 gilt fillets, light havana moiré silk lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved (Canape 1917) First collective edition, gathering two pieces by Paul Hervieu. Le Réveil, dedicated to Mounet-Sully, is a drama in 3 acts performed for the first time at the Théâtre-Français on December 18, 1905. L'Énigme, dedicated to Julia Bartet, is a play performed for the first time on the stage of the same theater on November 5, 1901. They both appeared for the first time in L'Illustration théâtrale. One of the 10 numbered copies on japan, from the collection of the writer and press owner Arthur Meyer (1844-1924), enriched with an original pastel drawing signed by the painter and pastellist Antonio de La Gandara (1861-1917), representing a portrait of a woman in profile, certainly an actress in one of the plays, and a beautiful L.A.S. from the author, June 8, 1915, 3 pages in-12, addressed to his "Dear director and friend", about these two plays. A perfectly preserved copy. Provenance: Arthur Meyer, with his gilt mark on the last box (cat. 1924, n° 334).
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