GUITRY (Sacha).
The Comedian. Unpublished comedy in a prologue and four acts, preceded by Lettre à mon père.
Paris : L'Ancre d'or, [1948]. - In-8, 257 x 168 : 157 pp, (2 ff.), printed cover. Paperback, filled cover, modern garnet morocco spine folder and slipcase.

First edition of the comedy Le Comédien, first performed at the Théâtre Édouard VII in 1921, and second edition of the Lettre à mon père which first appeared alone a few weeks earlier. It is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sacha Guitry, after a drawing by Jean Boullet, and a full-page portrait of Lucien Guitry after a drawing by Vuillard.

One of the 160 numbered copies on pur fil du Marais (n° 115), enriched with the following pieces :
- original watercolour portrait of Lucien Guitry, unsigned,
- L.A.S. by Lucien Guitry, 1 page in-8, to a friend,
- autograph manuscript by Sacha Guitry, 1 page in-4, with erasures and corrections, unidentified,
- two ink drawings by Maurice Perronnet, one showing Sacha and Lucien Guitry in profile, dated 1925, the other depicting Lucien Guitry in one of his roles, unsigned

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Browned cover.

Added to the copy are 10 original theatre programmes of plays performed by Lucien Guitry: L'Escalade by Maurice Donnay at the Théâtre de la Renaissance [1904]. - La Griffe by Henry Bernstein at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre [1909]. - L'Assaut by Henry Bernstein at the Théâtre du Gymnase [1912]. - Kismet by Edward Knoblauch at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre [1912]. - The Five Gentlemen of Frankfurt by Charles Roeszler [1914]. - Grand'père by Lucien Guitry at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre [1917]. - Pasteur by Sacha Guitry at the théâtre du Vaudeville [1919]. - Béranger by Sacha Guitry at the théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin [1920] (dedicated by Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps) - Le Comédien by Sacha Guitry at the Théâtre Édouard VII [1921]. - Tartuffe by Molière at the Théâtre du Vaudeville [1922] (enriched with an original portrait of Lucien Guitry in Le Misanthrope by Texcier, dated 28-2-22).
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GUITRY (Sacha). The Comedian. Unpublished comedy in a prologue and four acts, preceded by Lettre à mon père. Paris : L'Ancre d'or, [1948]. - In-8, 257 x 168 : 157 pp, (2 ff.), printed cover. Paperback, filled cover, modern garnet morocco spine folder and slipcase. First edition of the comedy Le Comédien, first performed at the Théâtre Édouard VII in 1921, and second edition of the Lettre à mon père which first appeared alone a few weeks earlier. It is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sacha Guitry, after a drawing by Jean Boullet, and a full-page portrait of Lucien Guitry after a drawing by Vuillard. One of the 160 numbered copies on pur fil du Marais (n° 115), enriched with the following pieces : - original watercolour portrait of Lucien Guitry, unsigned, - L.A.S. by Lucien Guitry, 1 page in-8, to a friend, - autograph manuscript by Sacha Guitry, 1 page in-4, with erasures and corrections, unidentified, - two ink drawings by Maurice Perronnet, one showing Sacha and Lucien Guitry in profile, dated 1925, the other depicting Lucien Guitry in one of his roles, unsigned . Browned cover. Added to the copy are 10 original theatre programmes of plays performed by Lucien Guitry: L'Escalade by Maurice Donnay at the Théâtre de la Renaissance [1904]. - La Griffe by Henry Bernstein at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre [1909]. - L'Assaut by Henry Bernstein at the Théâtre du Gymnase [1912]. - Kismet by Edward Knoblauch at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre [1912]. - The Five Gentlemen of Frankfurt by Charles Roeszler [1914]. - Grand'père by Lucien Guitry at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre [1917]. - Pasteur by Sacha Guitry at the théâtre du Vaudeville [1919]. - Béranger by Sacha Guitry at the théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin [1920] (dedicated by Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps) - Le Comédien by Sacha Guitry at the Théâtre Édouard VII [1921]. - Tartuffe by Molière at the Théâtre du Vaudeville [1922] (enriched with an original portrait of Lucien Guitry in Le Misanthrope by Texcier, dated 28-2-22).

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GUITRY (Sacha). The Comedian. Unpublished comedy in a prologue and four acts, preceded by Lettre à mon père. Paris : L'Ancre d'or, [1948]. - In-8, 257 x 168 : 157 pp, (2 ff.), printed cover. Paperback, filled cover, modern garnet morocco spine folder and slipcase. First edition of the comedy Le Comédien, first performed at the Théâtre Édouard VII in 1921, and second edition of the Lettre à mon père which first appeared alone a few weeks earlier. It is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sacha Guitry, after a drawing by Jean Boullet, and a full-page portrait of Lucien Guitry after a drawing by Vuillard. One of the 160 numbered copies on pur fil du Marais (n° 115), enriched with the following pieces : - original watercolour portrait of Lucien Guitry, unsigned, - L.A.S. by Lucien Guitry, 1 page in-8, to a friend, - autograph manuscript by Sacha Guitry, 1 page in-4, with erasures and corrections, unidentified, - two ink drawings by Maurice Perronnet, one showing Sacha and Lucien Guitry in profile, dated 1925, the other depicting Lucien Guitry in one of his roles, unsigned . Browned cover. Added to the copy are 10 original theatre programmes of plays performed by Lucien Guitry: L'Escalade by Maurice Donnay at the Théâtre de la Renaissance [1904]. - La Griffe by Henry Bernstein at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre [1909]. - L'Assaut by Henry Bernstein at the Théâtre du Gymnase [1912]. - Kismet by Edward Knoblauch at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre [1912]. - The Five Gentlemen of Frankfurt by Charles Roeszler [1914]. - Grand'père by Lucien Guitry at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre [1917]. - Pasteur by Sacha Guitry at the théâtre du Vaudeville [1919]. - Béranger by Sacha Guitry at the théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin [1920] (dedicated by Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps) - Le Comédien by Sacha Guitry at the Théâtre Édouard VII [1921]. - Tartuffe by Molière at the Théâtre du Vaudeville [1922] (enriched with an original portrait of Lucien Guitry in Le Misanthrope by Texcier, dated 28-2-22).
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