Jean GENET (1910-1986) - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1964) - Lot 125

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Jean GENET (1910-1986) - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1964) - Lot 125
Jean GENET (1910-1986) - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1964) Querelle de Brest [Paris : Paul Morihien, 1947]. - In-4, 312 x 236: 305 pp, (3 ff. last two blank), illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover. First clandestine edition, out of trade, published without date nor mention of publisher by Paul Morihien. It is illustrated with 30 lithographs by Jean Cocteau, including a frame on the title, repeated on the cover, and 29 full page erotic compositions. Edition at 525 copies, one of the 500 copies on vellum, this one being more specifically one of the 460 numbered in Arabic numerals (n° 341). A very well preserved copy, complete with the author's note on a flyleaf starting with the following words: "A sudden weariness made us abandon "Querelle" which was already unraveling. Paperback in a lace-up folder
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