Jean Cocteau

Theatre | Presentation Copy with Original Drawings

Grasset

1957

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Description

A presentation copy of Theatre, with original drawings and inscription by Jean Cocteau.

  • Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
  • Jean Cocteau (French).
  • Edited by Bernard Grasset.
  • Paris: Grasset, 1957.
  • Inscribed by Cocteau on the half-title in each volume “a Paola,” with an original signed drawing, volume two dated 1952.
  • Text in French.
  • Original publisher’s glazed pictorial boards, limited numbered edition this being #75 printed on Verge de Voiron paper.


This 2 volume monograph by the acclaimed French poet, playwright, writer, visual artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) collects the entirety of his written plays from 1921-1957.

Provenance

By decent through the family of Dr. Joseph N. Bishop, a New York City physician and surgeon, who arrived in the area around 1880 and who is credited with attaching the name Paola FL (originally known as Sylvan Lake) to the Seminole County community.

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Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine.

Internally clean and bright.

Mild toning to covers.

 

Product is used.

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Signed

Language

French

Subject

Autographed and Signed Material, Literature, French Literature and History, European Literature and History, Plays, Drama, Poetry, Illustrated, Illustrations

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