JACQUES PRÉVERT (1900-1977) PAROLES & SPECTACLE [WORDS & SHOW] 2 VOLUMES. IN FRENCH.

Gallimard, ‘Le Point du jour’ collection 19.5 x 14 cm 1) PAROLES N.p. [Paris] Gallimard, NRF ‘Le Point du jour’, 1951 revised and enlarged edition, 260th edition Printed by the Imprimerie à Mayenne. (2136) on 19 February 1951. Edition no.: 2408. Legal deposit: 1949. Printed in France Paperback, uncut pages, 293 (3) p., black cover, text in red, design by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Faucheux. Worn edges, rubbed joints, creases, worn head and tail of spine, endpaper missing, browned paper. 2) SPECTACLE N.p. [Paris] Gallimard, NRF ‘Le Point du jour’ Paperback, uncut pages, 365 p., red cover, text in black Worn edges, rubbed joints, worn head and tail of spine, browned paper, handwritten inscription on the front endpaper, bookseller’s label on the verso of the rear endpaper. Jacques Prévert French poet, screenwriter, dialogue writer and lyricist, famous for his wordplay, the popular force of his poems and his many collaborations with great film directors. He notably wrote the screenplay and dialogue of the film Les Enfants du paradis, directed by Marcel Carné, a masterpiece of poetic realism that became a major work of French cinema. Prévert also collaborated with Paul Grimault on Le Roi et l’Oiseau, a French animated film whose first version was released in 1953. These two works bear witness to the diversity of his talent and to the importance of his writing in the history of French cinema.