ANOUILH (Jean). - Lot 92

ANOUILH (Jean). Black pieces. - Pièces roses. Paris : Éditions Balzac, 1942. - 2 volumes in-12, 182 x 113: 505 pp. (3 ff. the last blank), printed cover; 127 pp. - 337 pp, (3 ff. the last blank), printed cover. Full eggplant morocco, smooth spine decorated with a mosaic composition representing a black and beige ribbon unrolling in height set with golden dots, eggplant morocco frame inside, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, first cover of the first volume preserved, cover and spine of the second volume preserved (S. Magaud) Pièces noires is a collective edition of four plays entitled L'Hermine, La Sauvage, Le Voyageur sans bagage and Eurydice. One of the 200 copies on Alfa Navarre, the only edition on large paper announced. This one is enriched with an autograph sending signed by the author to Charles Magaud: To Charles Magaud // who appears in the // stairs and makes me // mistake the floor // With my sympathy // all the same // Jean Anouilh // Sept. 1946 It is probably the politician Charles Magaud (1923-1989) from Sables-d'Olonne. We find bound afterwards, on edition paper: ANOUILH. Antigone. Paris: La Table ronde, 1946. - Collective first edition of Pièces roses, comprising three plays entitled Le Bal des voleurs, Le Rendez-vous de Senlis and Léocadia. The latter appears here for the first time. One of the 200 copies on Alfa Navarre, the only large paper edition announced. This one is enriched with an autograph sending signed by the author to Charles Magaud: To Charles Magaud // sympathetically // Jean Anouilh // sept. 1946 Beautiful copies in uniform mosaic bindings, signed by Suzanne Magaud. The bindings of the latter are rare. Fléty specifies that she worked first as an amateur and then as a craftsman from 1950 to 1975. Spines slightly faded. Small rubs to the corners. Provenance: Charles Magaud, with signed autographs from the author.