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Original red decorated cloth binding. Very good. A minor scruff to a small section of the top edge. First signature a bit loose but still solid. First American/English edition translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury. Frontispiece portrait of the actor Richard Mansfield. Scarce.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalized account of his life and incorporates larger-than-life elements. It explores themes of inner versus outer beauty, love, and heroism.

First editions published by Charpentier et Fasquelle, with date 1897 on title page.