CYRANO DE BERGERAC A Play in Five Acts Newly Translated By Humbert Wolfe

First of the edition, set in Granjon types and printed on Ticonderoga paper. With handsome pictorial decorations throughout by Paul McPharlin printed in pale blue and black, titlepage printed in red, blue and black. 8vo, handsomely bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards decorated in a romantic floral motif in gray-blue, pink, red, white, and silver, backed in maroon cloth with paper label printed in gray-blue. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase. xvii, [1], 210 [1 colophon] pp. A very good and fresh copy, the interior very fine and appearing pristine, the binding with a touch of rubbing to the extremeties only, the slipcase solid and strong with just a touch of age mellowing.

Edizione: first of this fine illustrated edition. cyrano de bergerac, a cadet and nobleman serving in the french army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. in addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also shown to be a musician. however, he has an extremely large nose, which is the reason for his own self-doubt. this doubt prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful and intellectual heiress roxane, as he believes that his ugliness denies him the "dream of being loved by even an ugly woman."