MARTIN DU GARD (Roger). Les Thibault. Sixth part. The Death of the Father. Paris: Librairie Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, [1929]. - In-8, grey bradel canvas, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (back binding). Original edition. Press copy, enriched with this beautiful dispatch from the author addressed to Louis Jouvet: to Louis Jouvet // - his friend, otherwise // his author... // very affectionately // RMG // - March 1929 Martin du Gard had written a joke for Louis Jouvet in 1925, under the title La Gonfle, which the latter refused. It wasn't until 1931 that Jouvet, then director of the Comédie des Champs-Élysées, staged and played Un Taciturne, a three-act drama by the Thibault author. Good copy.