Cyrano de Bergerac; A Play in Five Acts
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers, 1898. Early edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 14-250 pp. Beige publisher's cloth with a red, orange, black, and gold decoration and purple lettering on the front board, purple lettering and orange, purple, and black decoration on the spine. Translated from the French by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard. With illustrations from stage scenes and a photogravure frontispiece of Mansfield as Cyrano and seven additional plates, one of which is Margaret Anglin as Roxanne. Several editions of this play were published in the English language in 1898. There was also a French language edition published in New York in 1898. This copy of Rostand's magnum opus has a most charming publisher's binding, and contains several lively images of the play as it was put on at the end of the nineteenth century. Near Fine. Item #000015997
A touch of rubbing to the front board and spine, a contemporary name on the front pastedown.
Price: $450.00