Al-Farafir (The Flipflap)
Cairo, Egypt: [No Publisher], 1964.
First edition. Signed by Yusuf Idris on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. In Arabic. Very Good, light wear, front wrap corner creased, a few creased and dog-eared pages. A signed copy of a play that is the most popular and critically-acclaimed work by an Egyptian author (1927-1991) whose short stories have been translated into English in a number of collections. Encyclopedia Britannica writes of the play, "[It] combined elements of traditional comic forms of dramatic presentation with such Brechtian effects as the presence of an 'author' as a stage character and the use of theatre-in-the-round staging."
Price: $2,500.00