Marius - Fanny - César

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Imperial Japan for “Marius” and “Fanny”, one of 25 numbered copies on Imperial Japan for César, the tirage de tête for each volume.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally discoloured as always, a full-margined pleasant copy.

These three volumes are presented in a box with a flap in half olive green morocco, paper boards with a decorative motif, slipcase lined in olive green morocco, set signed Thomas Boichot.
Extremely rare set complete and as published, the tirage de tête of this famous trilogy.
We attach an extraordinary handwritten note signed by Pagnol on the subject of the unforgettable Marius; five lines signed in blue ink and the date and place by machine at the bottom right (“Cassis 1^st July 1941”):
”Jamais Mr Raimu ne tournera dans un film de moi ni ne mettra les pieds dans mes studios.” (”Mr Raimu will never shoot in a film of mine or set foot in my studios.”)
Marcel Pagnol naturally never argued with Raimu, his favourite actor, whose eulogy he delivered: “One cannot make a speech at the grave of a father, a brother or a son, and you were all three at once.”

This note comes from the library of the Provençal caricaturist, filmmaker and writer Carlo Rim who was a very close friend of Marcel Pagnol, Raimu, Fernandel, Antonin Artaud and Max Jacob.