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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963, artist) and Jean GENET (1910-1986). Querelle de Brest. [?Paris: ?1947].
4° (305 x 232mm). Lithographic frontispiece and 28 plates by and after Cocteau, title border after Cocteau, initial printed in red. One-page letterpress leaf [?to subscribers] beginning 'Une brusque lassitude ...' bound in before the title. Two original brush-and-ink drawings by Cocteau tipped onto a postliminary flyleaf, both folded, the first 315 x 239mm, the second 318 x 242mm. Contemporary half black crushed morocco gilt, lettered in gilt on the spine, original printed wrappers after Cocteau bound in, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities a little rubbed, small scuffmark on spine).
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. LIMITED TO 525 COPIES 'STRICTEMENT HORS-COMMERCE', THIS NUMBER 393 OF 460 ON VéLIN à LA FORME. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY COCTEAU. Querelle de Brest was issued in both illustrated and unillustrated editions in 1947. The two original drawings by Cocteau which are tipped into the present volume are close in style and subject to the homoerotic lithographs that illustrate this edition, suggesting that they were preparatory sketches.
4° (305 x 232mm). Lithographic frontispiece and 28 plates by and after Cocteau, title border after Cocteau, initial printed in red. One-page letterpress leaf [?to subscribers] beginning 'Une brusque lassitude ...' bound in before the title. Two original brush-and-ink drawings by Cocteau tipped onto a postliminary flyleaf, both folded, the first 315 x 239mm, the second 318 x 242mm. Contemporary half black crushed morocco gilt, lettered in gilt on the spine, original printed wrappers after Cocteau bound in, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities a little rubbed, small scuffmark on spine).
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. LIMITED TO 525 COPIES 'STRICTEMENT HORS-COMMERCE', THIS NUMBER 393 OF 460 ON VéLIN à LA FORME. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY COCTEAU. Querelle de Brest was issued in both illustrated and unillustrated editions in 1947. The two original drawings by Cocteau which are tipped into the present volume are close in style and subject to the homoerotic lithographs that illustrate this edition, suggesting that they were preparatory sketches.
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