New York: Viking Studio 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Clergue Jean photographer; Over 80 b/w Photographs including Film stills. 4to - over 9�" - 12" Tall square small. Slight rubbing to jacket; else a nearly new copy as issued. 144 pages. Full pictorial coverage of the 1960 film "Testament d'Orphee" as viewed through the lenses of Cocteau's compatriot as well as his own vision. Essay by David LeHardy Sweet; photographer's acknowledgments. Viking Studio hardcover
Bookseller reference : L064343 ISBN : 0670892580 9780670892587
Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins 1928. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrated with five plates after designs by de Chirico. First edition. One of 2875 numbered copies of 2900 of the regular issue on RIVES. There were also 100 deluxe copies. Fine. Editions des Quatre Chemins unknown
Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins 1928. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrated with five plates after designs by de Chirico. First edition. One of 2875 numbered copies of 2900 of the regular issue on RIVES. There were also one hundred deluxe copies. Faintest trace of tanning at edges else about fine in frayed glassine. Editions des Quatre Chemins unknown
Paris: Aux Éditions de la Sirène 1920. Contemporary cloth and boards original printed wrappers over stiff wrappers bound in. First edition. One of 1950 numbered copies on alfa from a total edition of 2000 copies. Some pencil notes wrapper fold-ins trimmed away in binding; a good sound copy. Aux Éditions de la Sirène hardcover
N.Y.: Dodd Mead 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. About 10 B/w Illustrations. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" VG/VG in DJ some rubbing/few sm nicks to DJ. 8vo with DJ 4881 Edited with an introduction by Margaret Crosland. Originally published in Great Britain in 1972. Dodd, Mead hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0827776 ISBN : 0396067204 9780396067207
Norfolk & New York: New Directions 1963. Cloth. First collected US edition including translations by Auden Fitts and Cummings. One of ca. 4000 copies bound thus. Near fine in very good dust jacket with rumpling to lower edge of rear panel associated with two internally mended tears. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p. 59. BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON B90. New Directions hardcover
Paris: The Traveller's Companion Series / The Olympia Press 1957. Stiff printed wrappers. Tiny label affixed over price on lower wrapper modest rubbing at spine ends otherwise a very good or better copy considerably above the norm. First edition of this unexpurgated translation attributed to Austryn Wainhouse of Cocteau's anonymously published 1928 novella LE LIVRE BLANC. Published as TC #51. The wrapper title incorporates the indefinite rather than definite article. KEARNEY 1987 126. KEARNEY & CARROLL 5.51.1. YOUNG 499. The Traveller's Companion Series / The Olympia Press unknown
London: Agenda 1960. II:2&3. Pictorial wrappers. Crown of spine bumped and nicked else very good. Edited by William Cookson. A special double number turned over to Alan Neame's translation of Cocteau's poem. Agenda unknown
Paris: Librairie Stock 1923. 32pp. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Spine slightly nicked uniform tanning to textblock bookseller's ticket on terminal leaf verso otherwise very good. First edition ordinary issue after one hundred copies on Hollande. Published in the series LES CONTEMPORAINS. Curiously Talvart & Place call for an undated title-page and an implied date of 1924. TALVART & PLACE COCTEAU 21. Librairie Stock unknown
Paris: Grasset / Les Cahiers Verts XXXIX 1957. Printed wrappers. Frontis and illustrations by the author. First edition. One of 1350 numbered copies on Alfa. About fine unopened. Grasset / Les Cahiers Verts XXXIX unknown
Philadelphia: Chilton 1968. Cloth. Frontis illustrations. First U.S. edition. Edited with an Introduction by Margaret Crosland. Very good in lightly soiled dust jacket. Chilton hardcover
New York: Coward-McCann 1967. Cloth. First U.S. edition of this translation by Elizabeth Sprigge with an Introduction by Ned Rorem. Spine stamping tarnished else very good or better in a price-clipped dust jacket. Coward-McCann hardcover
New York / London: Grove Press and Evergreen Books 1961. Small octavo. Photographic wrappers. Illustrations. First edition in English issued as Evergreen Profile Book 24. Translated by Donald Lehmkuhl. A very good copy. Grove Press and Evergreen Books unknown
London: Peter Neville 1955. Cloth. Frontis photographs. First edition. About fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with light chipping and slight paper loss to the joints. Peter Neville hardcover
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers 1973. Cloth. Illustrations. First edition. About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with a small closed tear to the bottom of the upper panel. Rutgers hardcover
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown 1970. Cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Paper clip mark to top of one page spine a bit creased else very good in a dust jacket with a small closed tear to the top edge near the lower flap fold. Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown hardcover
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1970. Narrow quarto. Spiral-bound printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Wrappers lightly dust smudged and faded ink publication date on upper wrapper title label across bottom-edge but a very good copy. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown
New York: Viking 1968. Thick octavo. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. Paper clip indentation and rust marks to one page else near fine in dust jacket with a couple of nicks to head of spine. Viking hardcover
NY: Macauley Company 1958. First American Edition; dj in mylar price unclipped; owner's name; 88 cleran unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Author Illus. 12 vo. Macauley Company Hardcover
London: Dennis Dobson Ltd. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Slightly cocked mild edgewear to boards. Endpages mildly darkened. Frontis photo and other plates. The DJ in mylar is price clipped chipped at spine ends and bottom edge with loss to bottom rear panel small edge tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dennis Dobson Ltd. hardcover
Paris: Vialetay 1973. First Thus. Limited to 2000 copies. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's teal blind-embossed leatherette gilt-lettered spine top edge gilt; xix1285pp.; 16 leaves of plates including one folding. Tiny scratch mid-spine else Fine. An attractively produced collection part of the series "Prestige de l'Acad�mie Fran�aise." Vialetay hardcover
Centre d'etudes litteraires francaises du XXe Universite Paul Valery 1989. Paperback. Good. Centre d'etudes litteraires francaises du XXe, Universite Paul Valery paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG2905397330 ISBN : 2905397330 9782905397331
Buffalo NY: Apex of the M 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 8vo 160pp printed wrappers. Unmarked copy of the first issue of this literary review from Buffalo. Small closed edge tear and light bending to cover else just about as new. Buffalo, NY: Apex of the M paperback
Oxford University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in yellow cloth with black titles cloth is rubbed and worn with marks neat gift inscription dated 1945 on front endpaper. 44 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
<p>London: The Folio Society 1976. Appears Unread. Slipcase shows some wear corner rubbing. Cloth boards shows light spotting but square all corners sharp. Sewn binding very tight and as above seemingly Unread. Internally Fine. Note on provided images: Wavy color lines to book imparted by scanner not so to the eye. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Decorative Cloth Sewn Binding. Very Good/Very Good Slipcase. Illus. by Jean Cocteau. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p> The Folio Society hardcover
Madrid Spain: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof�a. From the 2001 exhibition. Fully illustrated in color and black & white. Text in Spanish. Ribbon page marker. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2001. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof�a hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020429 ISBN : 8480269723 9788480269728
BCA Vintage 2003. Translated by Rosamond Lehmann. 135pp illustrated softback covers. B w illustrations by the author. A very clean tight copy. Paul and his sister share a private world - a classic. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Jean Cocteau. BCA Vintage Paperback
New York / Garden City: Grove/Evergrren 1953. Very good light soiling to top edge and bottom corner of pages light wear to board and spine extremities bookplate of former owner to front pastedown in good dust jacket showing tanning and light spotting and short tears to spine extremities plus 1.5" closed tear to top edge of front. First Edition. Hard Bound. Very Good/Good. Grove/Evergrren Hardcover
Philosophical Library 1948. Hbk 137pp dj shelfworn and discolored slight damage to top front corner now in protective sleeve prev owners� names on fep text price clipped but little used if at all and a very good clean tight text Philosophical Library, 1948 unknown
Franfurt: Fisher Taschenbuch Verlag 1979. Near fine or better. No markings. German language. Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Paperback. Near Fine. Fisher Taschenbuch Verlag Paperback
Bookseller reference : 035390 ISBN : 359624482X 9783596244829
George G. Harrap & Co 1935. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. 1500grams ISBN: George G. Harrap & Co hardcover
COCTEAU JEAN. Le livre blanc. Paris Éditions du Signe 1930.<br /><br />4:o about 285x225 mm. 18 17 incl fr. p. coloured plates Jean Cocteau and one facsimile plate of Cocteau's handwriting. <br />Uncut in original wrappers loose in somewhat soiled original clothbacked paper boards. In a worn soiled and somewhat damaged paper case. Edition printed in 380 of 416 numbered copies this is number 65.<br /><br />Check from 1930 enclosed the sum of 4500 francs. Paris (Éditions du Signe) 1930. paperback
New York: Bodley Press. Very Good. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 9.75" x 8" oblong cloth. Marbled end pages. Rubbing some bumping to edges. DJ is present soiled and chipped in a clear glassine protector. . Bodley Press hardcover
Bernard Grasset 1925. Paper Back Paper Back. Good. Good Softcover. Moderate Shelfwear and soiling to covers and spine including tiny tear. Textblock stamped. Pages yellowed but clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. Bernard Grasset unknown
University of Washington book store. Fair. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair rebound EXLIBRARY hardback with several exlib markings. First Edition 1930. 43 pages. Rene Arcos Marcel Arland Blaise Cendrars Jean Cocteau Paul d' Estournelles Luc Durtain Paul Morand Pierre Reverdy Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Philippe Soupault. ntsp; H Poe GDST; Ex-Library; 43 pages . University of Washington book store hardcover
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