Mon premier voyage (Tour du Monde en 80 jours) - INSCRIBED with a Drawing to Kurt Weill

Paris: Gallimard. 1936. One of the 305 copies on alfa, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the author on the half title: "à mon grand et cher Kurt Weil [sic] Jean [star] et à son admirable femme" [the singer/actress, Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)] and with a drawing of a figure in bust profile. With a "prière d'insérer" on pink paper, errata sheet, and clipping of a 1937 article on the book by Auguste Bailly. Pages uncut, a very fine copy of historic importance.


Kurt Weill left Germany for Paris in 1932 after his music had been labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis. Soon after his arrival there, he encountered the multitalented French writer-artist Cocteau, who served as aesthetic spokesman for Les Six, a group of young composers strongly influenced by Erik Satie. He asked Cocteau to write the libretto for his "Seven Deadly Sins" but Cocteau declined and Weill turned to his long-time collaborator Bertold Brecht instead. Cocteau and Weill briefly planned to collaborate on a Faust opera, but this was abandoned in the early stages of discussion. (7300)

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