Mes Amours que j'ai tant aimees - inscribed copy
Paris: Flammarion, 1958. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1958, inscribed fondly to Jeanne Silvain Roze Laidley and her husband Alvin Laidley, very good in original dust jacket, light wear, light tanning. The inscription has some meaning: Jeanne Laidley, to whom the book is inscribed, was first married to Edmond Roze, a theatrical director, set designer and actor who died at Auschwitz in 1943. Cocea's first great success as an actress was in Phi-Phi (1919), the metteur de scene of which was...Edmond Roze! Cocea led a complicated life after that, married unhappily to a duke while promising her lover, an explorer and lieutenant, that she would marry him once she divorced the duke, and the divorce did occur in 1931 -- but when she declined to then marry her lover, he killed himself by shooting himself in the mouth. This caused her to retire from the stage and enter a convent, but she was briefly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator, and when she married again, late in life, it was to a shady vegetable dealer who was also a well known Nazi collaborator (using his connections to become the owner of a newspaper) and a lifelong fascist. Very Good / very good. Item #H3996
Price: $75.00