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12400 shelf. First edition in English, translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury. "Accepted and played by Richard Mansfield." Frontispiece of Mansfield w/ tissue guard. No dust jacket, bright silver-stamped red cloth. No names, clean text, solid. All lettering bright. Faults: FEP razored out, vertical cut has affected the half-title pg, but it's still firmly attached. Penciled note verso frontispiece. Related 1899 newspaper clipping glued at back, leaving brown ghost stains on back endpapers. Spine panel very slightly aged. Near-invisible break in cloth on one fleur-de-lys at base of spine. Scarce! 241 p.

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.