François TRUFFAUT

First edition for which no limited issue printed.
Publisher's original black full cloth binding, smooth spine, illustrated boards.
Some rubbing to the headpieces.
Numerous illustrations.

Precious and rare autograph signed inscription from François Truffaut: "Pour, Georges Pellegrin qui me faisait la courte échelle pour repérer les extérieurs de jules et jim, bien amicalement François Truffaut." ('For Georges Pellegrin, who gave me a leg up to scout the exteriors for Jules et Jim, with warm regards, François Truffaut.')

Georges Pellegrin, along with Robert Bober and Florence Malraux, served as assistant director to François Truffaut on Jules and Jim and Love at Twenty. He also collaborated with Jean-Pierre Melville on Army of Shadows and Le Samouraï, for which he worked as a screenwriter.
 
 

The first edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Publisher's boards, despite minor rubbing to head- and tail-pieces.
Richly illustrated. illustrated covers.

A rare, handsome autograph inscription signed by François Truffaut: “For Michel Capdenac in the hope that he'll become an unconditional lover of Hitchcock.”

Michel Capdenac was the pseudonym of Charles Dobzynski for his cinema column in Les Lettres françaises and Écran.

Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel. Les quatre cents coups. – Baisers volés. – Domicile conjugal [The Adventures of Antoine Doinel]First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed.
A good copy in original wrappers retaining its illustrated dust jacket.
Rare autograph inscription signed by François Truffaut to Josette Pastre.