Theatre [SIGNED & INSCRIBED, W/ AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY COCTEAU.] (2 vols. complete)

Cocteau, Jean; Bernard Grasset (ed.)

Verlag: Grasset, [Paris], 1957

Quartos. Vol.1: 535pp. [3]. Vol.2: 642pp. [3]. Illustrated tan leather boards with lettering and decorative motifs in blue and gilt on the covers and spines. Housed in the publisher's original cardboard slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. #7336 from a limited edition of 8,800 numbered copies printed on Vergà de Voiron paper. This is a unique copy inscribed, signed and dated by the author in pen, accompanied by a striking original drawing in colored pencil by Cocteau, all on the half-title page of the first volume. Pages throughout uncut and unopened. This fine press 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. The work is wonderfully illustrated throughout by Cocteau himself, including b/w in-text images as well as an impressive series of 40 plates of color lithographs, interleaved, and printed by the famed Parisian art printer Mourlot Studios. Volume one contains, "Les marià s de la tour Eiffel", "Antigone", "Romà o et Juliette", "Orphà e", "La voix humaine", "La machine infernale" "Oedipe Roi", "Les chevaliers de la table ronde" and "Les parents terribles". Volume two contains "Les monstres sacrà s", "La machine a à crire", "Renaud et Armide", "L'aigle a deux têtes", "Bacchus", "Thà atre de poche", and a final section containing "Scenic and Choreographic Arguments" and a bibliography. Both volumes contain a table of contents at the rear. Text in French. Slipcase with some creasing and light smudges. Bindings with a few minor smudges to the covers, and some minor cracking along the front hinge of the first volume. Bindings and interiors of both volumes in overall very good+ to near fine condition. Bindings and slipcase protected in modern mylar. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 49082

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Theatre [SIGNED & INSCRIBED, W/ AN ORIGINAL ...
Verlag: Grasset, [Paris]
Erscheinungsdatum: 1957
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: vg+ to near fine
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: Limited first edition.