12mo. Original two-toned green cloth (slight rubbing to extremities); quarter morocco folding case with onlaid profile of Cyrano. Provenance: George Wilmarth Nickel (bookplate); Donald G. Drapkin (bookplate, sold his sale, Christie's New York, 29 June 2005, Lot 324).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Rostand's play about a poet who is too embarrassed by his unsightly nose to pursue the beautiful Roxanne. Cyrano de Bergerac was adapted to film twice: in 1950 starring Jose Ferrer, and in 1990 starring Gerard Depardieu. Steve Martin starred in a 1987 comedy based on the play entitled Roxanne.  THE DRAPKIN COPY.