Title: Correspondance de Paul Roulier-Davenel recueillie par Sacha Guitry et illustrée par lui
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Large 8vo. pp. 176, [8]. Original printed wrappers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of an early “supercherie litéraire” by the ‘multi-talented’ Russo-French actor/director/dramatist and boulevardier Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), purporting to select from the correspondence of a recently deceased (imaginary) playwright (‘éteint dans mes bras’ (cf. Épilogue)), but in fact constituting a satire on the theatre world. See also H. Talvart and J. Place, Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française. Paris, 1928, v. 7, p. 375.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_9736876" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>