Jean CocteauABAA
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193211464New York: Longmans Green and Co 1932. Cloth. Jean Cocteau. The 1932 1st American edition translated from Cocteau's original French by Ernest Boyd. Solid and VG with very light sunning to the spine ends and upper edges in a bright price-intact VG- example of the 1st state dustjacket with the "$2.00" price. Light interior and inconspicuous staining to the jacket 2 small pieces of internal white tape re-inforcing the spine crown and a closed tear. Light chipping and creasing as well to the fragile Cocteau-illustrated dustjacket. Still though very presentable and attractive. 12mo 27 illustrations by the author complementing the text. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
195757828London UK: Peter Owen 1957. 8vo pp. 167. Biblliography. Translated from the French by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road. Includes the complete set of 40 original drawings made for the first French edition by the author. Paper over boards. Endpapers and edges spotted o/w a VG tight copy in soiled and somewhat chipped dj. A new edition. Peter Owen unknown books
1959042644Paris: Librairie Stock 1959. Edition nouvelle ornée de huit dessins de l'auteur. 119 1p. 8 b/w illustrations original stiff printed wrappers. Librairie Stock unknown books
1959144550N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage photograph of Francois Truffaut Jean Cocteau Jean-Pierre Leaud and others at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>Francois Truffaut won the award at the 1959 festival for best director for his film "400 Blows."<br/><br/>5 x 7 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1955142113N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage borderless press photograph of Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat France circa 1955. With the stamp of the Dalmas photo agency and International Magazine Services on the verso along with holograph annotations. <br/><br/>Chaplin and Cocteau first met in 1936 while traveling by boat to Japan and remained friendly throughout the intervening years. At the time this photograph was taken Cocteau was living in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat at the estate of socialite Francine Weisweiller while Chaplin owned a villa of his own which he would sell to David Niven a few years later. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1933D17641London: Oxford University Press 1933. Hardcover. Good. Original yellow cloth. With a specially drawn frontispiece by Pable Picasso. Cloth a bit dusty spine slightly frayed. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
1944LD17675Paris: Editions Rombaldi 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Rebound in plain magenta cloth. Preliminary leaves coming loose; otherwise a bright copy. Number 87 of 165 in all one of 125 on Arches. Text printed in blue and black. One of Cocteau's nicest books lithographs of his own drawings co-mingle with the text. <br/><br/> Editions Rombaldi hardcover books
1950626281950. COCTEAU Jean. ORPHEE: Film. Photographies de Roger Corbeau. Paris: Andre Bonne 1950. 12mo. glossy photo wrappers. A fragile item partly unopened with browning to the paper light wear at the wraps. unknown books
19277433Paris: Librairie Stock 1927. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 131 pages. FIRST EDITION this copy no. 433 of 525 examples on papier pur fil du Marais from a total edition of 686 copies. The original publication of the first major work for the theater by Cocteau. The play was staged in Paris 1926 with stage design by Jean Hugo and costumes by Coco Chanel and was the basis of his film masterpiece Orphee 1950. Some light age-toning to text block. In later patterned cloth with gilt-titled red morocco spine label; original orange wrappers bound in. Librairie Stock hardcover books
19502251Paris: André Paulvé et les Films du Palais Royal 1950. <br /><br />A binder containing 18 gelatin silver film stills 8" x 10" of dramatic moments from Jean Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée his Symbolist/Modernist interpretation of the Greek myth of Orpheus starring Jean Marais and Juliette Gréco. With one original "lobby card" 8.75" x 10" from the film's French release in 1950. The film stills were likely printed later.<br /><br />Also included in the binder is a program 8 x 10 ¼ for a 1963 American university tour sponsored by the French government of two plays: Cocteau's Orphée as well as Jean Giraudoux's L'Apollon de Bellac. There's also a mimeographed synopsis in English of the two plays. A scarce and unusual collection of French film and theatre ephemera. <br /><br />CONDITION: The original lobby card is creased at the edges and corners with pushpin holes to the corners. Film stills in Fine condition although a couple have light creasing in corners. Program has some creases and rubbing. Overall Very Good or better. André Paulvé et les Films du Palais Royal books
195031786Paris: Chavanne 1950. First edition. Wrappers illustrated fine. <br/><br/> Chavanne unknown books
196250016Amsterdam: Elsevier 1962. First edition 4to pp. 304; profusely illustrated with full-pg color and black & white photographs; grey paper-covered boards lettered in red pictorial dust jacket; some offset on endpapers light wear to jacket otherwise very good. A candid glimpse of life in Paris in the early 1960's. <br/><br/> Elsevier hardcover books
199141213London: Robson House 1991. First English edition. 8vo pp. xvi 173. Notes. Illustrated by the author translated from the French by Jesse Browner. A nice copy in little soiled dj. Reminiscences of Cocteau's youth and the people famous and not who peopled Paris of the time. Robson House unknown books
19889005267New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Annotations by Pierre Chanel. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. <br/><br/> Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1965LD17674Paris: Nouveau Cercle Parisien du Livre 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large folio. Copy 103 of 150. With 10 original etchings by Léopold Survage. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with contents loose as issued. Housed in publisher's slipcase corners split. Some foxing to front wrap but with contents very bright and clean. Another of the many ambitious Cocteau book publications. <br/><br/> Nouveau Cercle Parisien du Livre hardcover books
1923WRCLIT70260Paris: Librairie Stock 1923. 32pp. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Spine slightly nicked uniform tanning to textblock bookseller's ticket on terminal leaf verso otherwise very good. First edition ordinary issue after one hundred copies on Hollande. Published in the series LES CONTEMPORAINS. Curiously Talvart & Place call for an undated title-page and an implied date of 1924. TALVART & PLACE COCTEAU 21. Librairie Stock unknown books
196294703Monaco: Editions du Rocher 1962. Signed limited folio edition of original lithographs by Pablo Picasso reproducing his major works between 1916 and 1961 and produced by Jean Cocteau upon the occasion of Picasso's 80th birthday. One of only 199 copies signed by both Picasso and Cocteau this is number 46. Folio loose leaves as issued in the original pictorial wrappers lithographic frontispiece and 22 original lithographs by Picasso 6 of which are full page and 2 of which are double-page. In fine condition. Housed in the original vellum-backed portfolio with gilt titles to the spine and original slipcase. Rare and desirable linking two great artists of the 20th century. Picasso and Cocteau met in 1916 towards the end of World War I at the height of Picasso's synthetic cubism period. The period marked the first use of collage in the history of fine art and the series depicted highly geometric and minimalist Cubist objects mainly pipes guitars and glasses. Picasso and Cocteau would later collaborate on several projects including the present volume which offers an overarching collection of Picasso's diverse periods from Cubism to Picasso's late years. Editions du Rocher hardcover books
1962D17822Monaco: Éditions du Rocher 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Cocteau for editor Jean Denoël with a drawing at the front and signed by Picasso and Cocteau on the colophon. Among a number of copies on Rives reserved for collaborators from a total edition of 255. 24 original lithographs 11 of them hors-texte including the front wrapper and 2 double-page by Picasso printed in black by Mourlot. Folio contents loose as issued in original wrappers with cut-out design revealing title on front cover; 1/4 calf gilt-backed chemise and board slipcase split. Contents are fine. Prospectus laid in. "On the occasion of Picasso's 80th birthday Pierre Bertrand who was Cocteau's publisher assembled eleven of the poet's texts which reflected his friendship with Picasso. The latter illustrated these texts with 24 lithographs some of which are drawn in Cocteau-esque style "---Cramer 117; Monod 292; Bloch 1037-1060. <br/><br/> Éditions du Rocher paperback books
1946D17677Paris: Editions des Quatre Vents 1946. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's slim decorative boards; lightly worn. <br/><br/> Editions des Quatre Vents hardcover books
1926D17618Paris: Galerie aux Quatre Chemins 1926. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps. Lightly worn. <br/><br/> Galerie aux Quatre Chemins paperback books
1920D17609Paris: Editions de la Sirene 1920. Paperback. Very Good. Tall 8vo. Original wrappers lightly worn. Copy 371 of a total edition of 1032. Uncommon in spite of limitation. <br/><br/> Editions de la Sirene paperback books
1945LD17659Paris: Francois Bernouard 1945. Paperback. Good. Thin quarto; original wrappers. 16 hand-colored illustrations by Cocteau. Copy 158 of 392 on "papier Isle de France". The issue of 1650 is relatively common but any of this first 392 numbers on fine paper much less so. Wrappers foxed a bit of wear to cellophane jacket. Contents quite lovely. <br/><br/> Francois Bernouard paperback books
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 books
1939983845<b>BALLETS RUSSES DE DIAGHILEW</b> 1909 A 1929 Musee des Art Decoratifs. Palais Du Louvre. Pavillon de Marsan. Exposition organisee par Serge Lifar. Mars a Juin 1939. <br /><br />Lithographic poster on paper printed in color with lettering and full margins. Signed "Jean Cocteau" in the stone lower right. Sheet size: 61" x 34"; mounted on silk rolled. Fine copy. <br /><br /><br />Our 1939 poster was restruck from the original lithograph of 1911 to advertise this the first major exhibition concerning Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.<br /><br /><br />The poster shows Karsavina in Le Spectre de la Rose in her costume as the young girl in the ballet "standing on point her hands crossed in front of her her eyes closed facing to the left side of the image." The popularity of the exhibition caused its dates to be extended to 1 July as is advertised on ourposter.<br /> Louvre books
1953D17622Paris: Charles Portal 1953. Paperback. Near Fine. Publisher's square wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. Black and white photos throughout. This copy signed by Lifar. <br/><br/> Charles Portal paperback books
