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19878665New York. The Limited Editions Club. 1987. Bound in imprinted paper covered boards. Housed in suede lined leather edged slipcase. Folio. This Edition Limited to 1000 numbered copies of which this is # 724. Signed by Ionesco to Colophon. Illustrated by 4 colour lithographs by Eugene Ionesco. A Very Fine pristine copy. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover
1987015836New York: Limited Editions Club 1987. Wraps. Very slight foxing to the endpapers otherwise Fine in a lightly soiled Near Fine slipcase. Eugene Ionesco. Quarto 9" x 13" bound in cream printed wraps housed in a matching paper- covered felt- lined slipcase with red morocco leather top and bottom edges. Copy #333 of 1000 copies illustrated with 4 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS by Ionesco and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club paperback
1972Q-2070362361Schoenhofs Foreign Books 1972-10-26. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Schoenhofs Foreign Books paperback
19701222Paris: Gallimard 1970. Later printing. INSCRIBED dated 1980 and signed by Eugène Ionesco on the half title. Collection of short stories from the writer most associated with the theatre of the absurd. 8vo 238 pages in wrappers. Mild toning rubbing and some faint soiling. Otherwise clean and sound. A Very Good copy. SCARCE SIGNED. <br/><br/> Gallimard unknown
198721217151987. Paris: Editions Gallimard.1987. 8vo. White card wrappers with red lettering and wraparound red banner entitled 'Un Clin D'Oeil Aux Hommes Un Regard Vers Dieu'; pp. x 169 9; minimal discolouration to top and bottom edge and minor stain to front cover and to spine; otherwise near fine. First French edition. Presentation copy from the author with an inscription to the title-page addressed to a Swedish novelist snd critic: ""Pour Ingmar Bjorksten- Eugene Ionesco. 3 Mai 1988- StockholmEugene Ionesco wrote his first play The Bald Soprano or La Cantatrice Chauve in 1950 and subsequently ushered in theatrical revolution through bold use of surrealistic techniques on an unsuspecting audience. It is considered a crucial milestone in the movement The Theatre of the Absurd. In 1970 Ionesco was inaugurated in the Academie Francaise securing a position amoungst some of the most revered dramatists of the 20th century.The blurb of La quete intermittente reveals that the story of the novel concerns an artist's existentialism; ""These new diary pages follow the Journal en miettes published twenty years ago. Today the author feels old often ill. The approach of death terrifies him. He is torn by doubt: why this rage for writing Why this universal glory Why this world"". unknown
1959JJ18821Paris: Gallimard 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Rare inscribed and signed copy of Ionesco's most famous work. Original wrappers worn; spine stained and repaired. Images upon request. <br/><br/> Gallimard paperback
195961619Paris Galliard 1959. 8vo. Uncut in the original wrappers. Minor wear with edges exhibiting slight signs of use. The cover is clean overall but has four small brown spots. Fine and tight. Internally exceptionally well-preserved clean and bright. <br/><br/><em>First edition presentation-copy of one of Ionesco's most celebrated plays significant work in the Theatre of the Absurd. The copy is inscribed by Ionesco to front endpaper: "Pour Kjeld Abell - / Eugène Ionesco / avec sa reconnaissance / et son amitié. / E.I. / 9-25". With works like the present Eugène Ionesco helped found the important movement known as Theatre of the Absurd. The play explores themes of societal pressures conformity and the loss of individuality set in a town where the inhabitants gradually turn into rhinoceroses. Through the protagonist Berenger who resists the transformation Ionesco critiques totalitarianism the allure of mass movements and the fragile nature of human identity. Ionesco a Romanian-Frrench playwright bacame known for his rejection of traditional theatrical conventions and his focus on the absurdity of human existence. Alongside writers like Samuel Beckett he shaped post-war drama exploring existential themes through humor illogical dialogue and surreal situations. Le Rhinocéros is often interpreted as a commentary on the rise of fascism and the danger of unhecked ideologies though Ionesco insisted it was a more universal reflection on human nature. Its relevance endures as it invites readers and viewers to reflect on the role of the individual within the collective and the pressures to confirm even when that means losing one's humanity. The work is one of Ionesco's most celebrated plays alongside La Cantatrice chauve The Bald Soprano and La Leçon The Lesson and it soldified his reputation as a key figure in modernist literature. Kjeld Abell was a major Danish playwright and a key voice in mid-century European theatre. His bold innovative works anticipated many of the themes later explored by the Theatre of the Absurd. Abell often employed dream logic satire and non-linear structure to critique authoritarianism and explore existential dilemmas making him a highly relevant and meaningful dedicatee for this presentation copy. </em> unknown
1963017874Paris France: Gallimard 1963. First Edition First Thus . Soft Cover/Stiched. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/un-cut pages; showing surface discoloration to softcover. French language text. Full-length play translated into English as "Exit the King" by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco 1909 - 1994. Drama was first performed 1962 the Theatre de l'Alliance Paris. An absurdist drama in the other plays of the "Berenger Cycle" in which Berenger appears as a depressed insecure everyman prone to sentimentality. In this play he is King Berenger the First who all powerful is now more than 400 years in age. Story begins as he is informed that he is dying and likewise his kingdom is crumbling around him as his physical capabilities deteriorate. First in denial The King faces reality lapses into the Berenger mode of sentimentality and accepts looming death --- characters disappear one by one leaving the King now unable to speak alone his first queen who prepares him for the end. Of the play Ionesco said he wrote it while ill and frightened his own death. Le Roi se Meurt is an attempt to help in the preparation for death ---- we are all dying men who refuse to die. A tale of everyman's essential solitude and insignificanceof human existence. <br/> <br/> Gallimard paperback
1973320190New York: Grove 1973. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 105 pages. 8vo black cloth pages uniformly browned. d.w. New York: Grove Press 1973. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Grove unknown
1977Q-0394170210Grove Pr 1977-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grove Pr paperback
2000Q-0141184299Penguin Books 2000-08-29. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
19743556221Madrid.: Aguilar. 1974. Hardcover. Good. 19 cm. 927 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Colección 'Colección Biblioteca de Autores Modernos'. Ionesco Eugène 1909-1994. Traducido del francés por Luis Echávarri y María Martínez Sierra. Prólogo de Jacques Lemarchand. Tomo . Literatura en lengua francesa 840-2"19" Aguilar. hardcover
19774814New York: Abrams. 34 illustrations colour 206 in black and white. 258 pages. An exceptionally clean bright copy. . Near Fine. Hardcovers. 1977. Abrams hardcover
1987402227New York: Limited Editions Club 1987. Ltd. Ed. Softcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED. Heavy stock covers. Slipcased. Limited to 1000 copies SIGNED BY IONESCO. Color lithographs. Record # 402227 Limited Editions Club paperback
19705843439Calder & Boyars 1970. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN:0714504629 Calder & Boyars paperback
19705843440Calder Publications Ltd 1970. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item250grams ISBN:0714504629 Calder Publications Ltd paperback
1958022466London: John Calder. Vols. 1-5. London: John Calder 1958 1960 1963. Original cloth of various colors. First English editions. Together with Hugoliad or the Grotesque and Tragic Life of Victor Hugo. New York: Grove Press 1987. Original boards. First American Edition. Ionesco is an important representative of the theater of the absurd. Near Fine in Very Good Plus Dust Jackets with slight edge wear. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1958. John Calder hardcover
1976203661Bruxelles: Cosmos 1976. Hardcover. G-/G-: Exlibrary book with significant use. Appears to have been dropped which ripped both front and back end pages at the binding. However this does not affect the overall binding of the book and all pages remain tightly bound. Library stamp on the back free end page and due date card on the back pasted end page. Wear to the edges of the dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the artist on the title page. Brown cloth boards. There is a dust jacket with the title in black on a green spine. Pages: 16 17-463. Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. Inscribed and signed by the artist on the title page. Cosmos hardcover
1976ANElIONE44Brussels: Cosmos 1976. 1976. 4to. pp. 463. Text in French. many illus. some colour. biblio. index. cloth. dw. lightly rubbed & scuffed extremities slightly chipped. First Edition. F. Hardcover. Brussels: Cosmos, [1976]. Hardcover
1976396651Bruxelles : Cosmos 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 463 pages : illustrations some color ; 31 cm. Notes: Includes indexes. Contents: Ionesco E. Deux ou trois façons d'être Pol Bury. -- Balthazar A. Questions et réponses. -- Réponses aux amis. -- Ecrits de Pol Bury. -- Ecrits sur Pol Bury. Subjects: Bury Pol 1922-2005; Sculpture Belgian 20th century; Sculptors History Collection of works. Bruxelles : Cosmos hardcover
19729931154Calder & Boyars 1972. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN:0714509094 Calder & Boyars hardcover
1998Q-0306808358Da Capo Press 1998-03-22. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Da Capo Press paperback
1963541750London: Royal Court Theatre 1963. Softcover. Near Fine. Program. Octavo. Stapled wrappers with "First Night" sticker on front wrap. Near fine with light wear and handwritten date on front wrap. A program from the opening night performance of this production starring Alec Guiness and Googie Withers the third play in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle. Royal Court Theatre unknown
1960541753London: Strand Theatre 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Program. Octavo. Stapled wrappers. Very good with wear to the spine horizontal crease and miniscule spot on the front wrap. A program from a performance of this second play in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle" at the Strang Theatre following a month-long stint at the Royal Court Theatre. The production was co-directed by Orson Wells and starred with Maggie Smith Peter Sallis Michael Gough and Laurence Olivier who also co-directed. Strand Theatre unknown
1975Q-0030137314Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School 1975-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School paperback