COCTEAU (Jean). Escales. Paris, La Sirène,... - Lot 186 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins

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COCTEAU (Jean). Escales. Paris, La Sirène,... - Lot 186 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins
COCTEAU (Jean). Escales. Paris, La Sirène, 1920. In-4, burgundy half-marble, spine ribbed, gilt head, first cover cons. Edition illustrated by André Lhôte with 32 compositions, 13 of which are colored with stencil. Edition of 440 copies, one of 400 on vellum pur fil Lafuma. Binding very damaged, spine very rubbed and faded. We enclose : - an autograph bill from Jean Cocteau, unsigned : one folded f. in-4, under frame, including 4 lines : "The sea and the dream are similar. The plants that one removes from the one and the sentences that one removes from the other immediately lose their beauty". [Le Mystère de Jean l'oiseleur]. - COCTEAU (Jean). The professional Secret. Paris, Au sans pareil, 1925. In-8, paperback (very tired, partially uncut, yellowed paper in margins). Partly first edition, illustrated with 12 drawings by Cocteau in color, reproduced in facsimile. One of the 30 ex. h. c. marked J.C.
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