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1961FLAHIVE-3550Fleet Publishing New York 1961 Fleet New York 1961. First American edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price $4.95 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: A small bump on lower edge of front board. Jacket has a couple tiny closed tears foot of spine and some wear to extremities all as pictured and is otherwise fine. A beautiful copy of a very rare first American edition. Based on life of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and Nino Cesarini. "The Exile of Capri" was "unforgettable" and "transformative" to Stephen Fry. F1400A. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fleet Publishing, New York hardcover
192857175E-002: Edition Russe De Musique. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Edition Russe de Musique. 1928. 94 pgs. For voice and piano. Signed by Arthur Hackett Tenor; Margaret Mattenauer Mezzo-Soprano& Payl Leyssac and Serge Koussewitzky The Conductor and one other person I have yet to identify. Laid in material playbill from the first US performance laid in. Bound in cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards corners and extremities bumped and rubbed; stain present to the rear board Previous owner's note stating that this copy had been signed at the first US performance of this opera First Presentation in America with the Harvard Glee Club at the Boston Symphony Orchestra on 2/24/1928 & 2/25/1928. Stamp of Schirmer music present to the FFEP and the titel page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Oedipus rex is an "Opera-oratorio after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky scored for orchestra speaker soloists and male chorus. The libretto based on Sophocles's tragedy was written by Jean Cocteau in French and then translated by Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin; the narration however is performed in the language of the audience. E-133 . Edition Russe De Musique hardcover
1925Alibris.0001184Paris: Sans Pareil 1925. #162 of 440 copies on velin a la forme Montgolfier d"Annonay. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Original rose wraps bound in red textured cloth on boards with gilt on spine. Inscription and drawing of a pig on a front free end paper. Name and date on half-title page. Binding tight some toning pencil notes. Cocteau Jean. 105 p. Includes illustrations. 12 hand colored plates reproductions of drawings by the author. Sans Pareil hardcover
195486537Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1954. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 10 Mai 1954 13.50 x 21 cm une page Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean Cocteau 17 lines in black ink to a friend describing his Sevillian sojourn. Fold marks inherent to being placed in an envelope. Jean Cocteau explains his silence: his patron and very close friend Francine Weisweiller had been ill: ""Excuse ce long silence. mais on parle souvent de toi. Francine a été très très malade à Kitzbühel en Autriche et longue à reprendre des forces."" Excuse this long silence but we often speak of you. Francine was very very ill in Kitzbühel in Austria and slow to regain her strength. But to cut short his bad news he prefers to recount the enchantment of Seville: ""Nous revenons de Séville. Il pleuvait sur les calèches et les gitanes - mais dans le vieux Séville pareil à Pompéi les orangers embaument."" We are returning from Seville. It was raining on the carriages and the gypsies - but in old Seville like Pompeii the orange trees are fragrant. unknown
195485159Kietzbühel Kitzbühel 1954. Fine. Kietzbühel Kitzbühel 8 Février 1954 13.50 x 21 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed from the Grand Hotel Kietzbühel 16 lines in black ink to Olivier Quéant. Fold marks inherent to mailing envelope included. ""Grd Hotel Kietzbühel 8 Feb. 1954 my dear Olivier dans le poème ""J'ai dans un train"" il y a les chevaux noirs et l'homme le lotte du guerre et paix de Picasso isti guerre on pourrait prendre le motif séparé du livre qui flambe sous le pied d'un cheval noir. Il ferait une belle image. Si tu ne l'as pas demande le catalogue illustré de Rome . Eugenio Réale 3 rue Mangili Rome."" in the poem ""J'ai dans un train"" there are the black horses and the man the lotte of Picasso's guerre et paix isti guerre we could take the separate motif of the book that burns under the foot of a black horse. It would make a beautiful image. If you don't have it ask for the illustrated catalogue from Rome . Eugenio Réale 3 rue Mangili Rome. unknown
82276Paris Grasset 1953. 8° 234 S. seitlich montierter Erratum-Zettel nach Impressum Priv.-HLdr. m. gold. Rückenpräg. und eingebundenem Einband der Orig.-Broschur. gebunden wohl von E. Schroth Basel Seitenschnitt min. gebräunt; allg. tadellos. = Les cahiers verts Bd. 14. Erstes Ex. der Vorzugsausgabe nummeriert «Hollande 1» der 56 Ex. auf «vergé Hollande Van Gelder». 010 Paris, Grasset, 1953 unknown
193240832NY: Longmans Green & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt black topstain. Stated first edition American. Boards sunned at spine and edges. Bookseller ticket to rear endpage. Pencilled price to ffep. Firm and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine rubbed to joints mildly edgeworn price clipped taped on verso to joints. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages . Longmans, Green & Company hardcover
17865Paris Mercure de France 25 mai 1910. 1 vol. 115 x 185 mm de 172 p. Bradel demi-basane fantaisie dos lisse titre et fleurons dorés filets sur les plats tête dorée date en pied couverture conservée reliure de l'époque signée de Vermorel. . Édition originale. Envoi signé : « à ma tante qui est mon amie Jean Cocteau ». . C'est en 1909 que paraît le premier ouvrage de Jean Cocteau La Lampe d'Aladin : dès cette période il fréquente les artistes bohêmes et on le surnomme déjà « le prince frivole » terme qu'il retiendra pour son second recueil à paraître l'année suivante. Grâce à son oncle Raymond Lecomte Cocteau avait été introduit dans les salons mondains où sa mère cotôyait Nadar et Jacques-Émile Blanche. Ce diplomate homosexuel compta beaucoup pour le jeune homme tout comme toute la branche maternelle « Les Eugène » comme les surnomme Cocteau qui témoignent de l'influence considérable qu'eurent son grand-père sa mère prénommés Eugène et Eugénie et ses oncles et tantes sur son imaginaire au point d'inspirer Le Potomak paru en 1914. Des « Eugène » Cocteau avait deux oncles : Raymond donc et Maurice qui est aussi son parrain. Ce dernier avait épousé en 1884 Marie Jacob : c'est chez sa tante que le jeune garçon trouvera refuge en mars 1898 quelques jours avant le suicide de son père le 5 avril. Marie Lecomte s'occupera de son neveu plusieurs semaines durant lors de cette période difficile et les liens familiaux entre eux deux seront toujours présents. On ne connaît que deux autres envois à cette tante l'un sur Le Potomak l'autre sur Thomas l'imposteur. Bel exemplaire en reliure d'époque. Paris, Mercure de France, (25 mai) 1910. 1 vol. (115 x 185 mm) de 172 p. Bradel demi-basane fantaisie, dos lisse, titre et fleur unknown
1932COCTEAUJ015098Longmans Green & Co London New York Toronto. 1932. First U.S. edition. Translated by Ernest Boyd. Octavo. pp iv 188. Illustrated with twenty-seven drawings made by the author when under the influence.Faint tape marks to free endpapers. Covers faded at the edges. Very good in very good price-clipped dustwrapper faded at the spine rubbed at the edges and a bit chipped at head of spine. Longmans, Green & Co, London, New York, Toronto. unknown
195483066s. l.: S. n. 1954. Fine. S. n. s. l. 27 avril 1954 21 x 27 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau president of the jury of the 1954 Cannes festival which was held from March 25 to April 9 addressed to his friend Carlo Rim 17 lines in blue ink : ""cette étrange foire d'empoigne à laquelle j'essayai de donner quelque grâce"" ""this strange free-for-all to which I tried to give some grace"" Jean Cocteau further praises Carlo Rim's impartiality and clairvoyance: ""Je dois te dire ma reconnaissance pour ton oeil qui savait voir au dessus du lieu."" ""I must tell you my gratitude for your eye which knew how to see above the place."" and denounces the struggles of influence troubling and surrounding the awarding of prizes of which he bore the brunt : ""Le plus drôle c'est que ma dernière tentative de justice dérangeait encore de combinés - l'entourage de Clément ""The funniest thing is that my last attempt at justice still disturbed some schemes - Clément's entourage"" This refers to René Clément who was competing that year with Monsieur Ripois il n'y est pour rien espérant un scandale publicitaire annulé par le prix spécial. Les petits copains que tu connais dirent qu'on m'avait téléphoné de ordres sic."" ""he has nothing to do with it hoping for a publicity scandal cancelled by the special prize. The little friends you know said that I had been telephoned orders."" Satisfied to be rid of this cumbersome burden Jean Cocteau nonetheless advises his friend Carlo Rim jury member to be vigilant for the next edition of the festival: ""Le jeu n'étant pas la chandelle. L'année prochaine ouvre ""l'oeil"" sur le travail de mon successeur. il aura bonne mine comme on dit."" ""The game not being worth the candle. Next year keep an 'eye' on my successor's work. He will look good as they say."" In his letter Jean Cocteau mentions René Clément who was competing that year with ""Monsieur Ripois"" which thus obtained to the great joy and instigation of René Clément's entourage the grand jury prize ""Gate of Hell"" by Teinosuke Kinugasa winning the grand prize. Fold marks inherent to postal mailing. Provenance: from the Carlo Rim collection. Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer author notably of ""Ma belle Marseille"" a caricaturist a filmmaker: ""Justin de Marseille"" ""L'armoire volante"" ""La maison Bonnadieu"" and was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob and André Salmon whom he met in Sanary. S. n. unknown
196087393Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1960. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 6 Janvier 1960 21 x 27 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph letter dated and signed by Jean Cocteau 9 lines in black ink to his friend Georges Bachelard from his villa at Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Fold marks inherent to postal dispatch envelope included and extensively written by Jean Cocteau. Jean Cocteau extends all his wishes for success to his friend and thanks him for his last letter which comforted him in the path he is pursuing. unknown
196358875Paris: Perrin 1963. Fine. Perrin Paris 1963 14.50 x 20 cm en feuilles sous double chemise et étui First edition one of 100 numbered copies on papier de luxe the only grand papier deluxe copies. One stain on the spine of the chemise slipcase slightly soiled. A nice copy with double chemise and slipcase. Perrin unknown
196185154Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1961. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 23 Janvier 1961 21 x 27 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau on letterhead from Villa Santo-Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat which he decorated 13 lines in blue ink to Roger Nimier. Fold marks inherent to mailing. ""23 Janv. 1961 Très cher Nimier voici pour accompagner le portrait dessin. Si vous le trouvez trop bref demandez chez Grasset un exemplaire de journal d'un inconnu. Dans le chapitre de l'amitié je raconte un déjeuner entre Simenon Pagnol et moi.- sans nommer personne. Mais le passage est très significatif de ce que je résume en q.q. lignes. Votre fidèle Jean. P.S. Dites moi vite si tu as reçu cette note et son P.S."" ""23 Jan. 1961 / Very dear Nimier / here is something to accompany the portrait drawing. If you find it too brief ask Grasset for a copy of Journal d'un Inconnu. In the friendship chapter I tell of a lunch between Simenon Pagnol and myself - without naming anyone. But the passage is very significant of what I summarize in a few lines. Yours faithfully Jean. P.S. Tell me quickly if you received this note and its P.S."" unknown
192658237Paris: Stock 1926. Fine. Stock Paris 1926 13.50 x 19 cm 2 volumes brochés First edition one of 100 numbered copies on vélin d'Arche paper this copy one of 25 hors commerce for each volume the only grand papier deluxe copies with 30 Japon. Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded as usual otherwise nice set with edges preserved. Stock unknown
197072894Paris: La Table Ronde 1970. Fine. La Table Ronde Paris 1970 14 x 21 cm broché First edition one of the 20 numbered copies on Madagascar deluxe copies ""tirage de tête"". Very nice copy. La Table Ronde unknown
195889996Monaco: Editions du Rocher 1958. Fine. Editions du Rocher Monaco 1958 12.50 x 24.50 cm broché First edition one of 40 numbered copies on B.F.K. de Rives vellum the only deluxe-paper issue. A fine copy. Editions du Rocher hardcover
195856562Monaco: Editions du Rocher 1958. Fine. Editions du Rocher Monaco 1958 12.50 x 24.50 cm broché First edition one of 40 numbered copies on vélin B.F.K. de Rives the only large paper copies. A very good copy. Editions du Rocher unknown
1957stela873Paris: Pierre Seghers 1957. 1957. 4to. pp. 37. French text. dust wrapper design by Pablo Picasso. 12 photographs by Lucien Cherque. boards. dw. rubbed corners and head & foot of spine bumped and worn bit discoloured at head of spine first 16 pages are loosely inserted. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Paris: Pierre Seghers, [1957]. Hardcover
1931334184Paris: no publisher 1931. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 69pp. Paper wrappers with unopened pages. Sunned with some wear to the spine and bumping to the corners very good. The first of a five-issue literary magazine published from 1930 to 1932 that devoted itself to "the modern arts such as photography the cinema sound and talking films phonograph records radio etc." It was edited by the American author and translator Samuel Putnam along with help from Ezra Pound Maxwell Bodenheim and Richard Thoma. This issue features several contributions from Jean Cocteau including a five-page poem "Angel Wuthercut" an illustration a photograph of Cocteau and a still from his first film La Vie d'un Poete the first film of The Orphic Trilogy. It also includes an early poem from Richard Eberhart and contributions from Pound Bodenheim Massimo Bontempelli E. Giménez Caballero George Reavey H.R. Hays Richard Thoma V.F. Calverton Wambly Bald George Antheil Willard Widney Ian Mackay Francis Musgrave and Horace Bevans. [no publisher] unknown
1932140939633London New York and Toronto: Longmans Green and Co 1932. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading to spine cloth hinge at title page over-opened pages toned and lightly thumbed. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine rubbing light wear at extremities and wear to spine ends. Longmans, Green and Co unknown
51-6173Paris : Au sans pareil 1926. 4to. 23.7 x 33cm. Original wraps and board chemise with cloth ties.Romeo and Juliet. Pretext for a staging by Jean Cocteau based on William Shakespeare's play. Sets and costumes by Jean Hugo.First edition printed in an edition of 432 copies of this play in 5 acts and 23 tableaux composed by Jean Cocteau after William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Soirées de Paris organized under the direction of Comte Étienne de Beaumont on Monday June 2 1924 at the Théâtre de la Cigale.References; Meunier J.-L. Ouvrages illustrés par Jean Hugo. In Jean Hugo: une rétrospective pages 201-206 page 202; Luc Monod Manuel de l'amateur de livres illustrés modernes no. 2932.The edition is illustrated with 21 original engravings by Jean HUGO 1894-1984 author of the play's sets and costumes including 13 hors texte. With the exception of the figure on the title all compositions have been hand-colored under the artist's supervision.One of 350 copies on Montgolfier d'Annonay vellum.Some damage to the hinges of the chemise.Somptueuse édition publiée Au Sans Pareil la maison fondée en 1919 par René Hilsum. Le livre rend compte de la richesse et de la poésie d'un spectacle audacieux surtout visuel qui ne relevait ni du théâtre ni du ballet et qu'il est bien difficile d'imaginer lorsqu'on n'en a pas été le spectateur.Spectacle commandité par le comte de Beaumont qui eut lieu au théâtre de la Cigale à Montmartre du 17 mai au 30 juin 1924. En lever de rideau figurait la pièce de Tristan Tzara: Mouchoir de nuages.Jean Cocteau avait non seulement assuré la mise en scène de Roméo et Juliette mais il tenait également le rôle de Mercutio Maurice Sachs jouant le rôle d'un page. — In-4 broché couverture rempliée sous chemise cartonnée et illustrée de l'éditeur.Édition originale tirée à 432 exemplaires de cette pièce en 5 actes et 23 tableaux composée par Jean Cocteau d'après William Shakespeare. Elle fut représentée pour la première fois aux Soirées de Paris organisées sous la direction du Comte Étienne de Beaumont le lundi 2 juin 1924 au théâtre de la Cigale.L'édition est illustrée de 21 gravures originales de Jean HUGO 1894-1984 auteur des décors et des costumes de la pièce dont 13 hors texte. À l'exception de la figure sur le titre toutes les compositions ont été coloriées à la main sous la surveillance de l'artiste.Un des 350 exemplaires sur vélin Montgolfier d'Annonay.Quelques manques aux charnières de l'étui. Paris : Au sans pareil, 1926 paperback
19627464<b>COCTEAU JEAN. <i>Le Cordon Ombilical. Souvenirs.</i></b> 8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Librairie Plon Paris 1962. First Edition. 81 pages on ordinary paper. <b>Presentation copy inscribed by Cocteau</b> "à ma . . . cher Gérard d'Houville de beaux coeur Jean." <br /><br />Marie de Heredia also known by her pen-name Gérard d'Houville was a French novelist and poet. She married poet Henri de Régnier but had a long-term relationship with Pierre Louÿs who was probably the father of her son. She also took several other lovers and her association with openly lesbian colleagues led to rumors about her own sexuality. An interesting association copy. Very Nice. Librairie Plon
19271901200324Lausanne: Mermod 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Bischoff Henry. A handsome copy of the First French language edition of Daisy Ashford's The Young Visitors. The book was a publishing sensation in its day and was first published in France in a magazine1926. This is the first book edition in French. It was limited to only 262 copies of which 30 were hors commerce i.e. not intended for sale. 20 of these hors commerce copies were printed on Auvergne a la cuve and numbered in Roman numerals from xii to xxxi. This copy is numbered xxvii. Translated from the English by M. Sachs and with a preface by Jean Cocteau. Illustrated with woodcuts by Henry Bischoff including 6 plates coloured by hand. Full leather gilt with 5 raised bands at the spine and gilt-decorated colour-dyed covers. Top edge gilt and multi-coloured paper collages to the pastedowns untrimmed. Presented in a marbled slipcase with leather trim at the fore-edges. The original green wrappers are bound-in and thus perfectly preserved. The binding is firm and straight and in Fine condition - the colour may have faded very slightly from the boards but still vibrant. Very occasional and single spots internally some off-setting from a couple of the coloured plates to the pages opposite. The slipcase is colour-faded and sunned but otherwise shows no signs of wear. A lovely copy of a rare book. <br/> <br/> Mermod hardcover
196245563Paris: Gallimard 1962. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1962 12.50 x 20 cm broché First edition one of 25 numbered copies on Hollande tirage de tête after 15 parcheminé azuré hors commerce reserved for the author. A very good copy with good margins. Gallimard unknown
19571196801957. 270x210mm. 3 ff. recto au stylo bleu sous enveloppe oblitÂŽrÂŽe elle est adressÂŽe ˆ Jean Berthet avec cette note autographe en tÂte : Ã’Pardon. DÂŽchiffre ce palimpseste et donne le leur finiÓ. suit le manuscrit complet du texte titrÂŽ LÕAngoisse des poÂtes. II fut commandÂŽ par lÕauteur pour les Laboratoires Robert & CarriÂre qui venaient de lancer le Ã’Decontractyl PhenobarbitalÓ. La plaquette ÂŽditÂŽe ˆ cette occasion cf. n¡ ci-dessous publiait pour la premiere fois ce petit texte de Cocteau. Jean Berthet fut couronnÂŽ par plusieurs prix littÂŽraires dont le prix Jean Cocteau en 1990. Il compose plus de deux cent mille vers qui firent lÕobjet dÕune centaine de recueils certains illustrÂŽs par Pleynet Effel et ÂŽcrivit une cinquantaine de piÂces. Robert Sabatier dans sa monumentalo Histoire de la PoÂŽsie franÂaise le classe rÂŽsolument parmi les Ã’fantaisistesÓ. Beau document. Joint :AngoisseLe Fantastique dans lÕart.Paris Publicat 1958.1 vol. 245x165mm en feuille sous chemise imprimÂŽe en rouge et noir. Edition originale. Texte inÂŽdit de Jean Cocteau illustrÂŽ de 3 dessins de lÕauteur. Plaquette ÂŽditÂŽe pour les Services de Documentation des Laboratoires Robert & CarriÂre. Les XVI oeuvres reproduites ˆ la suite du texte de Cocteau figuraient au catalogue dÕune exposition Bosch Goya et le fantastique. 349 unknown