COCTEAU (Jean). The Mystery of John the Fowler.... - Lot 485 - Ader

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COCTEAU (Jean). The Mystery of John the Fowler.... - Lot 485 - Ader
COCTEAU (Jean). The Mystery of John the Fowler. Monologues. 1924. S.l.S.l.: [Daniel Jacomet for Édouard Champion, 1925]. - In-4, 275 x 218 : 33 ff, (2 ff.), printed cover. Black chagrin, boards covered with a modern marbled paper with slightly raised silver veins, smooth spine, lining and endpapers of the same paper as the boards, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine retained (Kama Rok). Rare first edition, printed at 142 copies numbered and signed by Jean Cocteau. This work was written at the Welcome hotel in Villefranche sur mer in October 1924, less than a year after the death of Raymond Radiguet. Cocteau offers a series of 31 self-portraits, the first 30 of which are accompanied by various reflections on art, beauty, drugs and life, through which he evacuates his pain. The edition reproduces the author's original manuscript in phototypesetting and was produced by Daniel Jacomet for the publisher Édouard Champion. One of the 120 copies of the current edition (no. 48), enriched with a greeting card from André and Pierre Jacomet for the year 1980, reproducing the last page of the book, a postcard addressed in 1980 to Jacques Crépineau, a dedication from Jean Cocteau to Jacques Crépineau, cut and pasted on the cover, as well as two newspaper clippings, the first one proposing the Clarendon chronicle titled Cocteau parmi nous, and the second one reproducing a class photograph representing Cocteau in the fifth grade. Good copy, well bound. Attached, by the same author : - Le Grand écart. Roman. Paris : Librairie Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, [1926]. - In-8, 240 x 171 : (4 ff. first blank), 150 pp, (5 ff. last 3 blank), 22 plates, printed cover. Paperback, filled cover. First illustrated edition, with 22 out-of-text compositions by the author, 11 in colour. Limited edition of 500 copies; one of 419 numbered on vellum pur fil Lafuma. A very well preserved copy, enriched with an invitation card for a show on February 19, 1960 at Bobino, including twice Jean Cocteau's signature, his address and this autograph note: "Alas far from Paris - wishes you good luck".
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