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INSCRIBED TO JOSÉE DAYAN
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
La femme rompue. L’âge de discrétion.
Monologue.
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. 8vo. First edition, first issue on
ordinary paper. Publisher’s wrappers.
The wrappers are housed in the dust jacket of a later edition
of the book, with a photo from the TV series based on the
title, stating that Josée Dayan as the director (see below).
Very thin and weak stain to upper edge of front wrapper
and first three leaves. Weak stain to upper edge of last leaf.
Trace of paper clip to first to leaves. Else a straight and
attractive copy.
INSCRIBED:
A Mme. Dayan en toute sympathie. S. de Beauvoir.
PROVENANCE: French film director, screenwriter and
producer JOSÉE DAYAN [1943-]. In 1978 Dayan made a
TV series based on Beauvoir’s «La femme rompue» and
in 1979 she followed up with a documentary on Simone
de Beauvoir. Most known are perhaps her 1998 TV miniseries
«The Count of Monte Cristo» with Gérard Depardieu
in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series «Les Misérables»
with Depardieu and John Malkovich.
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SAMUEL BECKETT
Happy Days. A Play in Two Acts.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 8vo. First UK edition.
Publisher’s wrappers.
A very near fine copy, in custom made clamshell box.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of Ole Michelsen
[1940 – 2020], Danish cultural journalist and author.
He interrupted a university education in 1964 and travelled
to France, where he became director’s assistant for Jean-
Pierre Melville on the film «Le deuxième souffle» in 1966.
INSCRIBED by Beckett: For Mr. Ole Michelsen very
cordially Samuel Beckett Paris, March 67.
Happy Days was first performed in New York at the Cherry
Lane Theatre on 17 September 1961.
18 000,- | £1 350 | $1 700
15 000,- | £1 225 | $1 400
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