Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, 1898, 1st English Edition Lamson Wolffe

Description: Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, 1898, 1st English Edition Lamson Wolffe. This book is embossed with the University of Minnesota Library; gifted to the library by Mrs. Alfred Pillsbury. This is the wife of the founder of Pillsbury Inc. (General Mills). I assume it was gifted in the early 1900's to the library. The book is also signed by Elizabeth L. Field 1899; I assume this is Mrs. Alfred Pillsbury as that what I found in researching the family. The book is in good condition; the exceptions are the library and dedication stamps and signatures. In this case however they are historical characters. The back of the last page had something removed from it so there is glue residue. Please see pictures for condition This is a 1st edition in English of Rostand's masterpiece, Cyrano de Bergerac. Famous for its two Oscar winning films. First, starring Jose Ferrer in 1948 as Cyrano, winning the Oscar and of course in French, in circa 1990, Gerard de Perdieu as Cyrano. Ma Panache, His last words as he leapt to embrace the heavens, one of the most affirmative deaths of all time. Lamson, Wolffe and Company, Boston, New York, London, 1898. Hardcover. Book Condition: I believe this is in good condition but I am not a professional. It is First Edition. First English Edition. The original Cyrano lived between 1619 and 1655. Cyrano de Bergerac was first published in France by Charpentier et Fasquelle in 1898 (following its stage production at the Porte Saint-Martin Theater in Paris on December 28, 1897), and first translated into English by Kingsbury for Lamson, Wolffe the same year. Mansfield was the first actor to play Cyrano in the United States in an English translation. The play is based loosely on the life of Savien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), Rostand's favorite writer. "Yet the character as portrayed by Rostand with his excessively-enlarged nose, his almost super-human duelling skills and his ability to improvise eloquent poetic speeches is far from an exact portrait of the real-life Cyrano of the seventeenth century. . . . Possessed of a keen intellect with an insatiable appetite for reading and for learning, he constantly experiments with, when he is not challenging outright, the established social, scientific, political and religious ideas of his day. This questioning, satirising and ridiculing of contemporary authorities, along with an open-mindedness to new concepts that remains strikingly modern, has earned Cyrano a firm place amongst the libertin writers of seventeenth-century France." (Literary Encyclopedia)

Price: 79 USD

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

End Time: 2025-01-02T02:13:50.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD