L'Aigle à deux têtes.
[Paris], Gallimard, 1946.
8vo. 196 pp. Paperback. Spine detached.
€ 2.500,00
First edition. Half-title inscribed to Hayani Sassoon with a drawing of a face and scribbles, dated 1947.
Cocteau's play on the impossible love between a widowed queen who despises her regimented life at court and her would-be anarchist assassin with a secret passion for his target premiered at Théâtre Hébertot in Paris on 21 December 1946 and saw subsequent productions in London and New York.