Lot n° 178
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COCTEAU JEAN - Lot 178
COCTEAU JEAN
Le grand écart
Paris, 1926, Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, large in-8 full brown chagrin, first cover decorated with a clown doing the grand écart mosaicked in colored morocco, slipcase lined. Covers and spine preserved. Head gilt. 151pp. 22 full-page illustrations by Jean Cocteau, including 11 watercolors in color. First edition of the illustrations. One of 419 copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma (total edition 500). The first edition was published in 1923 without illustrations. Talvart III p.181 N°16b. Superficial scratches to spine, otherwise a good, well-bound copy. Large bookplate of Lucienne Corneux Filloux engraved by Decaris.
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