The Typewriter

A Play in three act written by Jean Cocteau. Translated from the French by Ronald Duncan...

London: Denni, 1947.

ACTOR JOHN GIELGUD'S COPY, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. First English-language edition. 8vo. pp 100. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, slightly faded on spine with a little chipping to head and tail. Bookplate to front pastwdown. Illustration by Cocteau to dust-jacket. First performed in Paris in 1941 under the title" La Machine à Ecrire". English-language translation by Ronald Duncan. In 1933 Gielgud directed Cocteau's "La Voix Humaine" at the Ambassadors Theatre, London.