Total Eclipse

White wrappers with integrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author to title page with “All best wishes”. First paperback edition. (Published simultaneously in hard cover.) *** Christoper Hampton’s second play, first published in 1969 and the basis for a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis, for which he also wrote the screenplay. Based on letters and poems, the play presents a historically accurate account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.