Dedicated first edition of Cesar

First edition of Cesar,
a copy bearing a moving double-dedication from Marcel Pagnol to the actress Josette Day.

PAGNOL, Marcel. César.
Paris, Fasquelle éditeurs, 1937.

12mo [183 x 116 mm], 246 pp., (1) l. Bound in half-vellum, flat spine, blue marbled paper covers, original wrappers and spine bound in.

First edition, review-copy, after 25 copies printed on Japanese paper and 50 on Dutch paper.

Precious association copy, dedicated to the author’s wife Josette Day, with this moving double dedication signed by the author on the half-title: “Pour Josette Day, en souvenir de Brotonneau. Marcel Pagnol. (18/01/39)”, followed by “qui est devenu ton mari. Je t’aime. Marcel. 25 oct. 1939 » (= « For Josette Day, in remembrance of Brotonneau. Marcel Pagnol. (01/18/39)” and “who became your husband. I love you. Marcel. 25th of October 1939. »)

Marcel Pagnol met Josette Day (1914-1978) on the shooting of his film Monsieur Brotonneau, in January 1939. They got married few months later hence the double dedication, written before, and after the wedding (January, then October 1939).

The choice of this novel by Pagnol to dedicate it to his beloved is moving as Cesar relates the reunion and the wedding of Marius and Fanny.

Price: €2 500

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