Paris: Stock, 1924.
Price: $9,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards with printed paper title label on front board. Modernist bookplate of Alex de Hass on rear pastedown, moderate edgewear on the boards, near fine. A collection of Cocteau's pen and ink drawings, mostly portraits, which was dedicated to Picasso.
In October of 1946 Cocteau visited Amsterdam to attend the Dutch premiere of his famous film *La Belle et la Bête.* During this visit he was hosted by the Dutch songwriter and performer Alex de Haas. This volume has two large original drawings by Cocteau, one on the front fly, the other on the half-title, each dedicated by Cocteau to de Haas.
Additionally affixed to the front pastedown is an original gelatin silver photograph (9.25" x 6.5") of Cocteau speaking at a press conference in Amsterdam, as well as a later color portrait of Cocteau from a magazine affixed on the copyright page. Additionally, on the recto of the rear fly-leaf is an original drawing by the well-known Dutch caricaturist Eppo Doeve, depicting de Haas paying homage to Cocteau on the stage of Tuschinski Theatre, 28 October 1946. This copy is referenced in the Dutch literary journal *De Parelduiker* May, 2007, pp.36-44.
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