the makropulos case
?APEK, Karel. V?c Makropulos. Komedie o t?ech d?jstvích s p?em?nou. Prague, Aventinum, 1922.
8vo, pp. 92, [4]; a fine copy, uncut in the original decorated wrappers designed by Josef ?apek, spine lightly browned; in a folding cloth box.
First edition of ?apek’s satirical drama on the theme of longevity, the source for Janá?ek’s opera, The Makropulos Case. The composer had seen the play early into its run in December 1922, and soon began a correspondence with ?apek over the possibility of using it as the basis for an opera. Janá?ek wrote the libretto himself; the opera premiered in December 1926.OCLC locates 3 copies only (Library of Congress, Indiana, Cambridge).
Ł1250
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