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Notes on Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac The first edition book is in the early 1929 transitional binding. Cyrano was published in spring 1929. It was scheduled for publication in March but isn't listed in Publishers' Weekly "Weekly Record" until the April 29 issue. The first printing has a uniform typographic jacket with a spring 1929 list. But this doesn't preclude a fall 1928 pictorial jacket. Titles published in January usually had jackets with lists from the previous fall. It's possible that the Modern Library "ganged" plates for several pictorial jackets and printed them together to reduce printing costs. With Cyrano scheduled for spring publication, pictorial jackets could have been printed several months in advance, in which case it would have had a fall 1928 list. First copyright page text: First Modern Library Edition First binding style: 4.5 (transitional) First inverse DJ number: 150 Dates in print: Spring 1929 - 1970 Toledano number: 154.1 Confirmed buckram sighting? yes Intro author: Preface by Clayton Hamilton Genre: Novel Original language: French Translator: Brian Hooker
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