Souvenirs d'Enfance : La Gloire de mon Père - Le Château de ma Mère - Le Temps des Secrets

Souvenirs d'Enfance :
La Gloire de mon père – Le Château de ma mère – Le Temps des secrets
Published the same year as the first edition, false statement of a thousand for each of the three volumes.

Bound in half green morocco, spine in four compartments set with black fillets, comb-patterned paper boards and endpapers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on the rough, contemporary binding signed Lucie Weill.
Moving handwritten inscriptions signed by Marcel Pagnol to his great friend the Provençal writer, filmmaker and caricaturist Carlo Rim, of whom he was one of the oldest accomplices:
– “à mon cher Carlo Rim, en souvenir de la rue Pisançon, de son enfance et de ma jeunesse, Marcel” (“To my dear Carlo Rim, in memory of Rue Pisançon, its childhood and my youth, Marcel”) for La Gloire de mon père.

– “à Carlo Rim, de la rue Pisançon, à l'avenue d'Eylau, ma trop vieille amitié, Marcel Pagnol 1961” (“To Carlo Rim, of Rue Pisançon, on Avenue d'Eylau, my too old friendship, Marcel Pagnol 1961”) for Le Château de ma mère.

– “O Carlo, tant pis pour toi, car ce n'est pas le dernier?! Ton ami Marcel” (“O Carlo, too bad for you, for this is
not the last! Your friend Marcel”) for Le Temps des secrets.
Professor of the aspiring bachelor Jean Marius – after that known as Carlo Rim –, the young graduate Marcel Pagnol preferred to teach him the bilboquet [cup-and-ball game], mocking the uselessness of the baccalaureate. This was the beginning of an unfailing friendship between the two artists whose literature, theatre and films contributed to the fame of the “Pays des cigales”.

Rare set bindings of this trilogy in uniform published by the living author, the fourth volume of Souvenirs d'enfance, Le Temps des amours appearing posthumously in 1975.

Important handwritten inscription from Marcel Pagnol, the most 'Marseille' of the writers and filmmakers, to his great friend Carlo Rim, the most 'Marseille' of the caricaturists.