Truffaut, François | The Films In My Life, inscribed to Elia Kazan

Truffaut, François

The Films In My Life. Translated by Leonard Mayhew. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978

8vo. Blue cloth over yellow boards, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, original dust jacket; very light soiling to edges, two corners lightly bumped. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Elia Kazan: "Pour Elia Kazan avec admiration, respect et amitié, François Truffaut. Nov: 80"

François Truffaut and Elia Kazan were two absolute titans of twentieth-century filmmaking. Their respective filmographies fill out large swaths of many critical "best of" lists. In his collection of essays, The Films In My Life, Truffaut devotes two essays to Kazan, discussing his films Baby Doll (1956) and A Face in the Crowd (1957).

PROVENANCE:

Elia Kazan (presentation inscription)