Mercure de France | Paris 1966 | 22.5 x 24.5 cm | publisher's binding
The first edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Publisher's boards, despite minor rubbing to head- and tail-pieces.
Richly illustrated. illustrated covers.
A rare, handsome autograph inscription signed by François Truffaut: “For Michel Capdenac in the hope that he'll become an unconditional lover of Hitchcock.” Michel Capdenac was the pseudonym of Charles Dobzynski for his cinema column in
Les Lettres françaises and
Écran.