Adams by Clair, Signed (2 results)

First French Edition, preceding all others. Copy No. 1 of seven copies on Japon, numbered 1-5, and two hors commerce copies numbered HCI and HCII. Warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "a Monsieur Brun / qui a si cordialement accueilli mon debut. / Avec la reconnaisance de René Clair," translating roughly to "To Mr. Brun / Who so cordially welcomed my debut. / With appreciation, René Clair." Published about a year after Clair's film debut, "The Phantom of Moulin-Rouge" ("Le fantome du Moulin-Rouge") and translated ten years later in English as "Star Turn" by Chatto and Windus, in a hardcover edition. The great French film director's first book, a novel about a film star who becomes lost in his own character, and devises a scheme to make a film with God as a means of escape. Clair's evocative, fantastical style echoed the work of his American counterpart, Frank Borzage, and was a monstrous influence on the French New Wave. Some very slight wear to the first leaf from earlier erasures, else Fine and unread. A spectacular copy. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Printed wrappers as issued. Very slight wrinkling on the front wrap, still easily fine. This is Copy #1 of seven copies on Japon (of the seven there were also two copies *hors commerce* numbered HCI and HCII). Very warmly Inscribed by the author: "á Monsieur Brun qui a si cordialement accueilli mon début. Avec la reconnaissance de René Clair," which translates roughly as "To Mr. Brun who so cordially welcomed my debut. With appreciation, René Clair." A nicely inscribed, and highly limited issue of the first novel by the famous French film director probably best known in the English-speaking world for his 1945 film of Agatha Christie's *And Then There Were None.* Rare.