Cyrano de Bergerac

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Stated First Edition. Quarto (22 cm); xiv, 174pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($5.95). Boards full bound in deep red cloth with gilt and blind stamping. Topstain red with fore edge deckled. Decorative red and white endsheets. Dust jacket lightly toned and creased with minor soiling to back panel. Verso lightly toned at margins. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor shelfwear, light dust-soiling and scuffing to covers. Bottom margin lightly discolored. Top stain shows light water marks but no staining. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket.

Burgess's translation and adaptation of the classic Rostand play. Kenneth Branagh used this translation for the 2008 BBC Radio 3 production with Jodhi May as Roxane and Tom Hiddleston as Christian.