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First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Autograph inscription signed by Eugène Ionesco to his friend the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa (whom he erroneously called Suzanne) and her companion the actress Erika Kralik: "Pour Suzanne Ben-Mussa et Erika avec toute ma tendresse. Eugène Ionesco."
Literary adviser to the Jean-Louis Barrault - Madeleine Renaud Company, then, in 1957, editor-in-chief of the Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Simone Benmussa also directed, from the Odéon theatre, the cultural service and the Cahiers of the Renaud-Barrault company. She adapted for the theatre works by her friend Nathalie Sarraute, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein... She was the companion of the actress Erika Kralik.