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190987982s. l.: s. n. 1909. Fine. s. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1909 24.50 x 25 cm une page An early poem by Jean Cocteau 15 lines written in black on a thick leaf titled ""Rondel de la sultane embarassée"". Later published in his poem collection ""Le Prince frivole"" Mercure de France en 1910 his second book. This manuscript of Le Prince frivole was thought to have been lost: ""The original manuscript in Cocteau's hand is missing"" Complete Poetic Works Bibliothèque de la Pléiade page 1842. This collection of poems was praised by Marcel Proust who hailed Jean Cocteau as a: ""twenty-year-old Banville who awaits a higher destiny"". Cocteau later discarded it and went so far as to forbid its republication. ""Scheherazade knows not How to end her last tale! The heavy aroma creeps and rises. Whose FALSEchalant body is far away ""Shéhérazade ne sait point Comment finir son dernier conte ! Le lourd arôme rampe et monte. Dont son corps FALSEchalent est loin . A thousand and one times dawn has come For the old man counts them all But now fate has won her over And her story has come to an end Sheerazade knows not. Mille et une fois l'aube a point Car le vieux despose les compte Mais voici que le sort la dompte Et pose à son histoire un point Shéhérazade ne sait point ."" s. n. unknown
190987983s. l.: s. n. 1909. Fine. s. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1909 24.50 x 25 cm une page Autograph quatrain and quintet of youth signed with thirteen stanzas by Jean Cocteau 14 lines written in black ink on a cardboard sheet and titled ""Rondel du monsieur d'un certain âge"". This manuscript poem written on a flexible cardboard sheet was printed in the collection ""Le prince frivole"" published by Mercure de France in 1910 the poet's second published work. A small black ink stain above the title inherent to the composition of the poem. This manuscript of Prince frivole was reputed lost: «Le manuscrit original de la main de Cocteau manque» Oeuvres poétiques complètes Bibliothèque de la Pléiade page 1842. The work praised by Marcel Proust who thus hailed Jean Cocteau as a: «Banville de vingt ans qu'attendent de plus hautes destinées » would be disowned by the author who would go so far as to forbid its reissue. ""Joseph apporte mes armes ! Je lutte avec Cupidon ; Cuirasse moi d'amidon Et décore moi de Parme. . L'âge et ses dures alarmes Epargne encor mon bedon Je pars pour un combat dont Tu connais les doux vacarmes. Joseph apporte mes armes ! "" s. n. unknown
190987984s. l.: s. n. 1909. Fine. s. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1909 20 x 31 cm une page sur un feuillet double Autograph quatrain and tercet from Cocteau's youth comprising fourteen stanzas signed by Jean Cocteau with fifteen lines written in black ink and titled ""Pour Abel Bonnard"". This manuscript poem bearing two autograph corrections by Jean Cocteau was later published in the collection ""Le Prince frivole"" issued by Mercure de France in 1910the poets second published work. On the verso of the bifolium Cocteau drafted an early version of the poem: the title the first line and the very beginning of the second with a slight variation from the final version. This manuscript of Le Prince frivole was long thought to be lost: Le manuscrit original de la main de Cocteau manque uvres poétiques complètes Bibliothèque de la Pléiade p. 1842. The work praised by Marcel Proust who hailed Cocteau as a Banville de vingt ans quattendent de plus hautes destinées was later disavowed by the author who eventually forbade its reprinting. ""Pour Abel Bonnard"" appears among the suite of eight sonnets from the Hôtel Biron Pour mes amis Pour Marcel Cruppi Pour Reynaldo Hahn Pour Pierre Mortier Pour Francis de Croisset Pour Abel Bonnard Pour le comte Robert de Montesquiou Fezensac Pour Auguste Rodin and Pour Elle which were not given dedication titles in the printed edition: ""Un ogre a fait senfuir dryade fée ou muse. Cest déjà loin nos promenades au couvent ! Vous cherchiez à chaque herbe un beau nom très savant Insoucieux et gai comme un gamin qui muse . Armés doutils de fer contre un grand parc qui dort Marchait la horde interminable des vandales Et vous le défendiez avec vos armes dor !"" s. n. unknown
190988027s. l.: s. n. 1909. Fine. s. n. s. l. s.d. ca 1909 24.50 x 25 cm une page Early autograph quintet of fifteen stanzas by Jean Cocteau 16 lines written in black ink on a card sheet and titled ""La sultane au jardin"". This manuscript poem with three pencil corrections written on a flexible card sheet was printed in the collection ""Le prince frivole"" published by Mercure de France in 1910 the poet's second published work. This manuscript of Le Prince frivole was reputed lost: «Le manuscrit original de la main de Cocteau manque» Complete Poetical Works Bibliothèque de la Pléiade page 1842. The work praised by Marcel Proust who thus hailed Jean Cocteau as a: «Banville de vingt ans qu'attendent de plus hautes destinées» would be disowned by the author who would go so far as to forbid its reissue. ""Cruelle un peu déjà les noms que vous graviez Sont hauts sur les tilleuls qui longent la pelouse Vous n'avez plus les jeux que jadis vous aviez. Votre jupe chuchote un secret aux graviers Nous avions dix neufs ans et nous en avions douze ! . Et vous semblez ivre de morgue et de dédain La sultane parmi les lys pâles eunuques Qui désigne avec un inderganti de daim Au bonne - au serviteur de ce sérail - jardin Un choix rose et safrans de nonchalentes nuques."" s. n. unknown
195248105Paris: Grasset 1952. Fine. Grasset Paris 1952 11.50 x 17.50 cm broché First edition one of 25 numbered copies on Madagascar tirage de tête. Autograph inscription from Jean Cocteau to Roger Bradier. Spine re-inforced to head and foot. Grasset unknown
51-5049Paris: Editions de La Sirene 1920. Original wrappers. slighlty soiled. 4to. with a new red leather spine by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.First edition of these audacious Escales to the glory of the French brothels. Limited to 440 copies this is one of 100 numbered on Lafuma. There are 32 compositions of the Cubist painter André Lhote of which 13 including the cover and the title page have been enhanced with colors in stencil pochoirs or silkscreens by the Marty workshops.In-4 35 feuillets broché. Édition originale de ces escales audacieuses à la gloire des maisons closes. Tirage limité à 440 exemplaires celui-ci sur vélin pur fil Lafuma justifié.L' illustration réunit 32 compositions du peintre cubiste André Lhote dont 13 y compris la couverture et la vignette de titre ont été mises en couleurs au pochoir par les ateliers Marty. Luc Monod: Manuel de L'Amateur Livres Illustrés Modernes 1875-1975 1875-1975 no. 2906. Paris: Editions de La Sirene, 1920 hardcover
1949IOCl[COC43Paris: Paul Morihien 1949. 1949. 8vo. pp. 3 p.l. 11-87 1 leafcolophon. 4 colour illus. in text 3 full-page with no text on verso after designs by Cocteau. original wrs. & dw. with vignette by Cocteau below title on front dw. short tear in lower front joint faint foxing to last 2 leaves glassine wr. tattered. Limited to 500 numbered copies this one of 475 on watermarked 'vélin Johannot'. This is the third edition of Cocteau's semi-autobiographical homo-erotic text the second to be illustrated. All three of these editions 1928 1930 and 1949 were published anonymously in limited numbers. Hardcover. [Paris]: Paul Morihien, [1949]. Hardcover
10196Paris Librairie Stock 1926. 1 vol. 130 x 190 mm de 70 p. et 1 f. Broché sous chemise et étui Goy & Vilaine. . Édition originale. Envoi signé : « à maman cet essai d'amour et d'amélioration Jean coeur dessiné ». . Le surréalisme en 1926 c'est aussi l'histoire de ses opposants ou tout du moins de ceux qui n'y adhèrent pas - ou plus. Jean Cocteau est de ceux-là. Sans qu'il soit honni par le groupe c'est à distance qu'il s'y tient. Le 14 octobre 1923 soit trois ans avant cette correspondance Jean Cocteau écrit à Jacques Maritain : « Vous êtes parmi les 5 ou 6 hommes que je souhaite atteindre. » Maritain le philosophe thomiste dont la foi vivante guide la pensée et la vie rencontre le poète sophistiqué aux moeurs ‘contrenature'. Il en résulte une sympathie suffisamment élevée pour être incomprise. Or en mai 1926 Cocteau rend public à travers une lettre à son ami le chemin spirituel qu'il emprunte à ses côtés. Maritain lui répond. Curieux diptyque que celui-ci. Se reconnaissant comme des « dépaysés du même genre » ils osent cette association provocante. De toutes les réactions celle du groupe surréaliste sera l'une des plus haineuses et des plus musclées. Breton et Aragon saccageront les locaux de la revue des Nouvelles littéraires qui soutenait Cocteau par la voix entre autres de Frédéric Lefèvre. N'était-ce pas le moins pour calmer l'anticléricalisme et l'homophobie du pape du surréalisme Merveilleuse et touchante provenance pour ce texte si important pour Cocteau. Paris, Librairie Stock, 1926. 1 vol. (130 x 190 mm) de 70 p. et [1] f. Broché, sous chemise et étui (Goy & Vilaine). unknown
24569Paris Éditions des Réverbères s.d. 8 mars 1939. 1 vol. 100 x 200 mm de 2 12 et 2 f. Cousue imprimée sur un papier népal fin. Édition originale. Tirage unique à 137 exemplaires hors commerce n° 87 justifié par le poète au crayon bleu avec son étoile au même crayon au feuillet précédent la justification. Étrange et précieuse publication : le poème l'un des plus beaux de Cocteau condense son mystère dans un texte bref sans clé ni clôture fidèle à son titre : Énigme. Le frontispice également gravé représente un écu couronné et un profil d'homme signé « Jean » accompagné de l'étoile emblématique qui jalonne son oeuvre graphique. Tirage annoncé à 137 exemplaires hors commerce mais que l'auteur lui-même juge incertain. Dans une lettre adressée en 1952 à la BnF Cocteau confesse : « De très jeunes gens firent cette édition. Il me semble bien que le papier des Réverbères est un papier très quelconque et du genre papier d'emballage. . Je ne possède plus moi-même aucun exemplaire. » Tous les exemplaires furent justifiés de la main de Cocteau au crayon bleu souvent accompagnés de son étoile manuscrite : ici notre exemplaire porte le n° 87 justifié et marqué de cette même étoile au feuillet liminaire. L'extrême fragilité du papier et la difficulté technique de l'impression ont contribué à faire de cette plaquette l'un des Cocteau les plus rares à rencontrer complet et en bon état et « il se peut que le tirage ait été inférieur à celui annoncé » Cocteau OC La Pléiade 1999. Très bel exemplaire. Jean Cocteau et son temps cat. BnF 1966 n° 401 - D. Gullentops in Jean Cocteau OEuvres poétiques complètes coll. Pléiade Gallimard 1999. Paris, Éditions des Réverbères, s.d. [8 mars 1939]. 1 vol. (100 x 200 mm) de [2], 12 et [2] f. Cousue, imprimée sur un papie unknown
1947LD17666Paris: Nouvelles Editions Francaises 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 167 of 525 total one of the 375 copies on Rives a La Forme paper. Large 4to. Original wrappers with contents loose as issued. 152 pp. with 21 mounted black and whites photos from the film interspersed. Finely printed in red and black. The contents are near fine. The publisher's boxed slipcase is stained battered and broken. <br/><br/> Nouvelles Editions Francaises hardcover
1910D7471Paris 1910. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original paper-covered boards; small folio with 6 plates by Paul Iribe. One of 934 copies "sur Japon." Spine and corners lightly chipped; a little faint foxing or dust-smudges here and there; nternally nice and clean. <br/><br/> hardcover
195712413Rocher Monaco 1957. 1st edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Signed by Author. Ltd to 775 copies. Text is in French. Dust Jacket a trifle sunned. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; French Language; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12413. . Rocher paperback
16-4539Paris : SocieÌteÌ d'eÌditions 1909. Square 8vo. 14 x 18.2. Original wraps. 187 3 pp. Presentation copy to the celebrated actress with dedications in 1909 and 1910. Cocteau's first book. Title page torn without loss.COCTEAU. Jean. La Lampe d’Aladin. Paris. Société d’éditions. 1909. 1 volume in-12 brochage fatigué. Page de titre déchirée.Sur le premier plat envoi autographe de l’auteur signé à Mme Gilda Darthy 1909 surmonté d’1 second envoi « et maintenant ma vieille amitié » signé et daté 1910.Gilda Darthy as Marguerite de Bourgogne in La Tour de Nesle 1903. B Actress. Gilda Darthy 1878 – 1952 was a French actress .Expertise by Pierre Prevost 75 rue Michel-Ange 75016 Paris. Paris : SocieÌteÌ d'eÌditions, 1909. paperback
1930327396Paris: Editions Stock 1930. hardcover. fine. Full page black & white line illustrations. 270 pages with text in French. Small 8vo handsomely rebound in full tan morocco with part of the original cover laid in gilt details on cover and spine. Paris: Editions Stock 1930. Fine.<br/> <br/> Editions Stock unknown
19487154<b>First Edition.<br />Inscribed and signed by Cocteau with an original profile line drawing by Cocteau on the half-title. </b><b><br /></b><br />8vo. Original printed wrappers enclosed in modern cloth box. Paris: Gallimard 1948. <br /><br />Covers with splitting along spine short tears and soiling as usual o/w Fine. Gallimard
1925007886Paris: Draeger Frères 1925. First Edition. Flexboard Portfolio. Flexboard is semi-stiff card. Very Good Plus. Utterly charming pochoir plates explicating the printing process as practiced by Draeger which produced the most opulent and beautiful trade catalogues and other publications at the time and was unquestionably a premier if not the premier commercial printer in France and worldwide. Signed in ink by a Draeger and by Ruhlmann -- whoever Ruhlmann was. Folio 38 by 31.5 cm. Unpaginated text pages six in all which is entirely in Cocteau's verse with following color plates numbered 1 to 11. We should note that the coloring is somewhat modest in scale amounting to three colors and some limited shading of these colors. Yet the color effectively accentuates and enlivens Martin's humorous illustrations which also have the simplicity and gentle caricature one associates with cartoons. Paper pastedown on cover with a few small tears and chips. Light soiling of the portfolio cover and in plate margins -- a good amount can be diminished with an eraser if an effort is made. Occasional light foxing. Draeger Frères unknown
1924198218Paris: Editions des Quartre Chemins 1924. Both volumes #96 on Arches Vellum. Paperback. Good Wraps are moderately toned/scuffed/smudged/bumped; glassine is moderately chipped at corners and edges; spines are moderately bumped; spine strips are peeling a bit at both ends; pages are unopened; textblock edges are tanned/bumped; some tissue guards are loose and bent; interior is lightly toned with occasional foxing/smudging. White wraps with green and brown illustration with glassine DJ; two volumes; unpaginated; pages are unopened; tissue guards; richly illustrated some color. Text in French. Filled with absolutely gorgeous illustrations and facsimiles throughout. Volume I contains "Un article et un portrait de Georges Auric par Jean Cocteau un article de Louis Laloy une page de la partition de Georges Auric et 23 dessins en couleurs de Georges Braque." Volume II has the subtitle "Realisation Scenique." Editions des Quartre Chemins paperback
194039190Paris 1940. A beautiful love letter from Jean Cocteau 1889-1963 to Jean Marais 1913-1998 a movie star director both film and theatre painter sculptor writer and photographer--and Cocteau's lover from 1937 to 1947. When the letter was sent in April or May of 1940 Marais was mobilized in the French army. Aside from expressing his love for Marais Cocteau also discusses his work with Colette 1873-1954 with whom he had spent the evening on a play based on "Chéri" in which Cocteau plans to cast Marais. 27 x 21 cm. About 200 words written very legibly in black ink. On very good wove paper with no signs of aging. While Cocteau made little effort to hide his homosexuality he didn't sign the letters he sent to Marais during the war.just in case. THIS LETTER IS PUBLISHED IN FULL in "Jean Cocteau: lettres à Jean Marais." Paris: Albin Michel 1987 p. 132. In excellent condition. <br/><br/> unknown
SKB-12116n.p.: Privately published by Larry Jordan 1960. Oblong 16mo. Sewn in brown paper covers. Cover illustration by Cocteau. Limited to 100 copies handprinted by Larry Jordan. Features 33 mounted gelatin silver print movie stills from Cocteau's landmark surrealist film "Orpheus" as well as two drawings by Cocteau. Jordan was among the preeminent underground filmmakers of the period and part of Berman's circle of artists and writers that included Bruce Conner Jess Robert Duncan Philip Lamantia and others. Covers a bit toned with a couple of small faint stains contents fine 4" x 5". Rare. n.p.: Privately published by Larry Jordan, [1960]. unknown
1925198815Paris: Librarie Stock 1925. Softcover. Fair. Covers are separated at the fold minor tear to front top left portion of the cover. Covers are sopiled and sheet extremitites are age-toned and intermitently lightly soiled. Rayograph is quite clean and vibrant. Suitable for restoration or as a very nice reading or reference copy. Thick card wraps with black lettered printing. Black half-title loosely inserted Rayograph title-page then 4 gatherings of uncut and unopened sheets containing pages 1-15 followed by 2 loose sheets with printing the last one being a colophon. This is copy 217 printed on Arches Vellum. Not the best copy but with merit and quite scarce. Librarie Stock paperback
1951183076Paris: Calmann-Lévy 1951. Inscribed to the French actress Clara Tambour First edition inscribed by the subject to the glamorous French actress Clara Tambour: "Pour Clare Tambour mes souhaits de bonheur wishes for happiness Jean Marais". Marais and Cocteau were indissolubly linked from 1938 to 1963. This book designed by Cocteau pays tribute to Marias both as an actor and a painter. Octavo. Photographic frontispiece. Original buff wrappers designed by Cocteau lettered and decorated in brown and blue edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Lower edges of wrappers toned a little foxing at foot of front wrapper; jacket unclipped lightly toned and foxed some short closed tears to upper edges: a very good copy. unknown
1949211175Paris 1949. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 9-7/8 x 8 inches. Embossed stamp at lower right atelier stamp on verso with pencilled notations giving the subject of the photograph the date and the number of the negative. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 9-7/8 x 8 inches. Portrait of Cocteau leaning over the balustrade of a rooftop. unknown
1924013385Paris: LIBRARIE STOCK 1924. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Good. Inscribed by Cocteau and dated 1923 by him to influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles on the cover. Title page dated 1924. Presentable copy with a repaired spine that had suffered some loss and was laid back down with covers reattached. Some tape residue from inexpert previous tape repair upper and lower corners of covers where they meet spine. With original glassine that has browned with spine perished. Louis Vauxcelles 1870 - 1943 is credited with coining the terms Fauvism 1905 and Cubism 1908. Jean Cocteau 1889 -1963 was a French poet playwright novelist designer film director visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost artists of the surrealist avant-garde and Dadaist movements and an influential figure in early 20th century art. This copy represents an important association between two French art figures one the most influential critic of his generation and the other - apart from Picasso to whom Cocteau dedicated this work - the most influential artist of the 20thC. LIBRARIE STOCK unknown
51-6561Paris: Société générale d'impression 1910. Large 4to. 30 x 31cm Oringal wraps and cloth tie. 16pp.One of 934 copies on Japan for sale. copies Luc Monood no. 2943; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:963728423 no print copies on OCLC.Vaslav Nikinsky. Paris Société générale d'impression sd 1910. Edition of 1000 copies one of 934 on Japanese paper released for sale. Very good.Iribe's six drawings depict Nijinsky in Les Sylphides created in 1909 and in Schéjérazade created in 1910.See: Nijinsky. Musée d'Orsay Paris 2000-2001. Pages 119 125 and on the cover of the catalogue.In-4 carré broché couv. imprimée un peu empoussiérée.Luxueuse plaquette réalisée pour Le Témoin consacré aux Balletsrusses sorti des presses de la Société générale d’impressionl’imprimerie des Robes de Paul Poiret. 6 vers de Jean Cocteauillustrés de 6 délicates gravures de Paul Iribe représentant VaslavNijinski 1889-1950 dans deux ballets : Giselle et Shéhérazade.Cocteau cherchait à travers cet hommage à Nijinski labienveillance de Diaghilev dans l'optique d'une collaborationfuture avec les Ballets russes. ""Je ne sais plus s'il m'étonnedavantage par le miracle de ses vols ou par l'intensité de son jeu. Le Spectre de la rose c'est Nijinsky. Dans un costume auxpétales frisés auquel le rêve de la jeune fille ajoute peut-êtrel'image précise d'un récent danseur il pénètre parmi lescretonnes bleues avec la chaude nuit de juin. Il mime etconcentre tout ce qui jusqu'alors me semblait intraduisible d'untriste et superbe assaut d'arôme. Orgueilleux de sa rougeturbulence il tournoie en suaves remous imprègne les rideaux demousseline et enveloppe la dormeuse d'un voile tenace. Rien deplus extraordinaire ! La magie est telle qu'il recommence la fêtepeuple un sommeil enfantin de douces voltiges et tout à coupaprès un adieu final à sa chère victime par la fenêtre béante ils'évapore d'un bond si pathétique si contraire à toutes les loisd'équilibre si courbe et si haut que jamais plus la fuite et le retourd'un parfum de rose ne pourront m'assaillir sans que mon odorats'augmente d'un fantôme ineffaçable. J'éprouve à voir Nijinsky leplaisir illimité de l'art et l'allégresse précise des mathématiques. Ilfait sans cesse la preuve de son génial problème et son prestigeémane de cet équilibre."" Jean Cocteau Comoedia illustré du 15juin 1911. Édition limitée à 999 exemplaires ; un des 934 surJapon.Expertise by Cécile Ritzenthaler Paris. Paris: Société générale d'impression , [1910] paperback
51-6576Paris: Nouveau cercleParisien du livre 1965. Folio 35 x 46.5 cm; Sheets loose as issued; illustrated paper cover folded inside a gray linen slipcase. Cover and 10 Survage engravings inside and hors texte. Edition of 170 copies; No. 59 of 150 reserved for members of the Society here for Count Max de Chamberet. With a lithographed self-portrait of Jean Cocteau signed and dated 1960 on Arches paper. The Morgan Library thinks they bought a drawing of the exact same image dated 1962! Morgan Record ID:109664. "The idea for this book bringing together poems by Jean Cocteau illustrated by Léopold Survage under the theme of Pegasus had been submitted to the Poet and he had liked it. A few days before his death he invited us to Milly-la-Forêt to give us the texts and the preface he had specially written. But on the day of our meeting he was no longer there.".In-folio 35 x 46.5cm.; en ff. couv. illustrée rempliéesous emboitage de toile grise. Couverture et 10 burins de Survagegravés dans et hors texte. Tirage à170 ex. ; n°59 des 150 réservés auxmembres de la Société ici pour lecomte Max de Chamberet. Avec unautoportrait gravé de Jean Cocteauajouté en feuille libre. «L’idée de celivre réunissant sous le thème dePégase des poèmes de Jean Cocteauillustrés par Léopold Survage avaitété soumise au Poète et lui avaitplu. Quelques jours avant sa mort ilnous invita à Milly-la-Forêt pour nousremettre les textes et la préface qu’ilavait spécialement écrite. Mais aujour de notre rendez-vous il n’étaitplus là» postface.Expertise by Cécile Ritzenthaler Paris. Paris: Nouveau cercleParisien du livre, 1965. unknown
