Renoir, Jean. (1894-1979)

"Rules of the Game" - SIGNED

New York City: Simon & Schuster. 1970. First. Signed English-language edition of the screenplay for the classic film La règle de jeu - typically translated as The Rules of the Game - with an inscription from the director on the title page: "To Stephen Adamson,/ Happy you like my work./ With my kindest regards,/ Jean Renoir, April 1972."  Part of the Classic Film Scripts series.  Softcover.  12mo, 168 pp.  Light creasing to the spine, else fine.  5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20.3 cm.).

The son of famed impressionist painter Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Jean Renoir is widely considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history.  His films La grande illusion (1937) and La règle de jeu (1939) continue to feature regularly in lists of the greatest movies of all time. (18837)


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