Author: COCTEAU, JEAN
Title: Essai de Critique Indirecte: Le Mystère laïC-Des Beaux Arts Considérés Comme Un Assassinat
Description: Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1932. Limited Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. In French. Limited to 60 copies. Publisher's stiff paper wraps with all edges deckle, many uncut pages. With a B&W frontispiece by Giorgio de Chirico and an Introduction by Bernard Grasset.. Heel of spine is slightly rubbed, front pastedown and endpaper have a large, color picture of Jean Cocteau which appears to have been clipped from a magazine and pasted down on the two pages (unique!), else pristine,unmarked, tight, square and clean. With a glassine dj, in a brown cloth covered portfolio and a brown paper covered slipcase. Portfolio has a few minor rubbed marks on the boards. Slipcase is sunned, rubbed on the edges and has a few water spots. VERY GOOD.. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xiv, 262 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Essays; Books in French; Jean Cocteau; Art; Theater; Criticism; Limited Editions; Collectible Books; Art, Antiques & Photography Philosophy & Social Sciences


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