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Partage de Midi ["The Break of Noon"] [Bound Typescript] Hardcover - 1941

by Claudel, Paul

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Unpublished, 1941. Book. VG+. Buckram. Unpublished. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original typescript, 4to, transcript of Claudel's Oriental drama, with prefatory material on the Boxer Rebellion, etc. All text in French. [vi],108 pp., all leaves printed on rectos only. Bound into royal blue buckram, with gilt on leather title labels on spine. Modest shelf wear, a few surface marks to cloth. Fully intact interior. Front flyleaf shows signature of former owner Eunice Morgan Schenck (Dean and Professor of French at Bryn Mawr College), 1945. This play was originally issued in 1906 but revised through its final version, issued in 1949. The origins of, and/or the occasion for, this typescript are unknown, though one might speculate that it may have originated with Henri Peyre, among whose papers in the Beinecke at Yale may be found a similar typescript, which Peyre had made from the play at the Bibliotheque Nationale (sent to Donald Wing in 1941). It is likely that Schenck and Peyre knew, or knew of, each other, as both are cited in the acknowledgments of Edith Melcher's "Life and Times of Henry Monnier 1799-1877" (Harvard UP, 1950)..
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