Sims Reed Rare Books×

The Snowdrop. Translated from the French by Sarah Bowen

Marien, Marcel

(Exeter?). 1967
The English translation of a screenplay by Marcel Mariën, a typescript version in a handmade wrapper by Marien.

This typescript English translation of a screenplay by Marcel Mariën was translated by Sarah Bowen. The play was first performed in Brussels in November 1953. This typescript version may be unique and the cover which features Brigitte Bardot lying across both covers is certainly so.

This typescript was presumably executed for John Lyle for a performance at the Exeter Surrealist Exhibition. A version of the same translated text with additional photographs by Mariën was published without date in the late 1960s.
[6 leaves with foliation at upper right]. 4to. (272 x 211 mm). Drop-head title and typescript text throughout recto only. Original illustrated wrappers (a spread from a magazine showing Brigitte Bardot) by Marcel Mariën, titled in red ink to front cover.
#45874