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Auction 27 • LITTÉRATURE • JEAN COCTEAU • PAR DROUOT ESTIMATIONS - Paris

Bid on the lot list Drouot Estimations : 04 December 2019 - Salle 4 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

27 • LITTÉRATURE • JEAN COCTEAU • PAR DROUOT ESTIMATIONS

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Salle 4 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris

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27 • LITTÉRATURE • JEAN COCTEAU • PAR DROUOT ESTIMATIONS

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Lot n° 1

COCTEAU Jean

MANUSCRIT autographe signé «Jean Cocteau», La Lampe d'Aladin, 1907-1909; environ 100 pages in-4 (la plupart 29 x 22,5 cm); et COPIE corrigée; 94 pages in-4. Très précieux manuscrit de travail du premier livre de Jean Cocteau, illustré de dessins. C'est...

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Lot n° 2

COCTEAU Jean

La Lampe d'Aladin, Poems (Paris, Société d'Éditions,completed February 1, 1909); in-8 square, bound half-marble blue with corners, not trimmed at all margins, upper edge speckled. First edition of Cocteau's first collection, published on his own account,...

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Lot n° 3

COCTEAU Jean

La Lampe d'Aladin, Poems (Paris, Société d'Éditions,completed February 1, 1909); in-8 square, paperback, uncut. First edition of Cocteau's first collection, published on his own account, on publishing paper, in perfect condition. Signed autograph, in...

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Lot n° 4

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau", Les Chansons du Petit Prince en exil,1909; 86 in-4 or in-fol. sheets mounted on tabs in an in-fol. volume, ivory vellum period binding with flaps, back decorated with grotesque (small accident at one corner). Complete...

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Lot n° 5

COCTEAU Jean

Le Prince Frivole (Paris, Mercure de France, 1910); in-8, paperback, under Claude Labarre's cardboard folder. Original edition of Cocteau's second collection, on publishing paper (after 12 numbered copies on Holland); the proof is printed in green ink...

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Lot n° 6

COCTEAU Jean

57 L.A.S. et cartes postales, et 9 télégrammes, 1910- 1937, à Marie SCHEIKÉVITCH; 73 pages formats divers, nombreuses enveloppes et adresses; plus quelques lettres et documents annexes; le tout monté sur feuillets de papier vergé et relié en un volume...

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Lot n° 7

COCTEAU Jean

The Dance of Sophocles. Poems (Paris, Mercure de France, 1912); in-12, marbled paper bradel cardboard with flaps from the time, covers preserved. First edition of Cocteau's third collection, on publishing paper (after 7 copies on Holland); copy of the...

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Lot n° 8

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph poem, The Death of the Young Men of the Divine Hellade,circa 1912; title and 9 oblong pages small in-4 written on the front. Beautiful manuscript of a long unpublished poem of youth. Probably contemporary with La Danse de Sophocle, this poem,...

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Lot n° 9

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph POEM, Reversibility,circa 1910; on an in-4 page (slightly crumpled edges, repaired fold slit). An amusing poem of youth, never before published, evoking car breakdowns. This poem counts 10 Alexandrians: "Ah that we hurt ourselves with grief...

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Lot n° 10

GIDE André (1869-1951)

L.A.S. "André Gide", Cuverville, August 6, 1912, to Jean COCTEAU; 2 pages in-4. Precious letter giving her first appreciation of the work of her young admirer. Cocteau had just published his third collection of poems, Sophocles' Dance. "If I had found...

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Lot n° 11

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT, The Blue Darkness,1915; 5 oblong pages in-8 in green ink. On the cartoonist and cartoonist Sem. A fine tribute to the sharp line of Georges Goursat, known as SEM (1863-1934), the famous designer and caricaturist of the Belle Époque. Cocteau...

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Lot n° 12

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT, The Cape of Good Hope and Poems,1915-1917; 9 albums in-fol. (31.5 x 23.2 cm) with beige cloth cover, drawing albums with detachable sheets (Chapron Coquelin Sucr brand). Important complete manuscript of a very first version of the...

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Lot n° 13

COCTEAU Jean

7 autograph MANUSCRITS,for Discours du grand sommeil, 1915-1918; 13 pages in-4. Working manuscripts with many new variants. Discourse of the Great Sleep is a poetic sequence that consists of a prologue, the long poem that bears this title and ten separate...

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Lot n° 14

COCTEAU Jean

10 Autograph POEMS,1917-1925; 10 pages in-4 or in-fol. A set of ten poems written between 1917 and 1925, two of which appear to be unpublished. The others have been published in various collections: Poetry (1917-1920) in 1920, Vocabulary in 1922 or Poetry...

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Lot n° 15

COCTEAU Jean

Le Cap de Bonne Espérance, poem (Éditions de la Sirène, Paris, December 1918); in-8 square, paperback, filled cover. Original edition, 510 copies printed, one of 500 copies on bulky paper (n°253), in perfect condition. For this collection, in homage to...

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Lot n° 16

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph notebook,1919-1920; 79 oblong sheets in-8 (13.5 x 20.5 cm), most of which are written recto and verso, in ink and pencil, mounted on tabs; bound in an oblong volume in-8, red half marble with stripes, smooth back with a gold title with letters...

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Lot n° 17

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph poem signed "Jean Cocteau", Poor Jean; 1 page large in-fol. (43.5 x 27.5 cm) in black ink on laid paper. Beautiful and neat manuscript of this 18 verse piece, which inspired Cocteau's portrait by Irene Lagut, and collected in his Poems (1917-1920)...

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Lot n° 18

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT, Escales,1920; 56 pages in-fol. or in-4. Important set of largely unpublished working manuscripts for Escales, a book conceived with André Lhote. Cocteau designed these short poems to illustrate scenes from harbours, bars and brothels,...

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Lot n° 19

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "JC", Le Baron Lazare, 1920; 157 sheets in-fol. or in-4 written on the front, under autograph folder (margins freed on the very first sheets). Complete manuscript of this play in three acts, one of Cocteau's first dramatic essays. The...

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Lot n° 20

LARBAUD Valéry (1881-1957)

Samuel ButlerConference held on November 3, 1920 at the Maison des Amis des Livres (A. Monnier et Cie, 1920); small in-4, brown half-marrow binding, spotted paper plates, preserved covers (fragile paper with some small marginal slits) . Original edition...

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Lot n° 21

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau",Carqueirannne March 31, 1921, to Lucien DAUDET; 1 in-4 page very full of a small writing (slight slits in the folds). He first explains himself about a misunderstanding about a maid's room and ValentineHUGO... "Carqueiranne is ugly...

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Lot n° 22

COCTEAU Jean

The Massacred Wedding (Memories) - 1. Visits to Maurice Barrès (Paris, À La Sirène, 1921); in-12, paperback, cover filled, partially uncut. Original edition with the mention "second edition", on publishing paper. Autograph signed to André GIDE: "to Gide...

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Lot n° 23

COCTEAU Jean

3 L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau" and MAQUETTE autograph, 1921, to Bertrand GUÉGAN; 3 pages in-4 and 1 page in-8. Correspondence with the artistic director of La Sirène Publishing for the publication of his collection of poems Vocabulaire. Besse en Chandesse 23...

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Lot n° 24

RADIGUET Raymond (1903-1923)

Autograph poem signed "Raymond Radiguet", Nymph moved, 1921; 2 pages in-fol. on pink paper (small slit in the fold). Pretty erotic poem of 24 verses, collected in Les Joues en feu (Grasset, 1925). "From your head, take away this basket once overflowing...

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Lot n° 25

COCTEAU Jean

L.S. "Jean Cocteau" dictated to Raymond RADIGUET, March 3, 1922, to Germaine EVERLING-PICABIA; 1 page in-4. Break-up with Francis Picabia. "My dear Germaine You know that I love you very much, but alas after the last scumbag I just received from Saint...

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Lot n° 26

COCTEAU Jean

Le Secret professionnel (Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain, Boutelleau & Cie, 1922); in-16, paperback, yellow covers printed in black (yellow faux-title sheet). Original edition on Voiron Lafuma pure vellum, one of the 20 non-commercial copies (No. 4)...

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Lot n° 27

COCTEAU Jean

Vocabulary. Poems (Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1922); in-8, paperback. Original edition, one of the 1100 copies on Scottish wove paper (No. 828). Signed autograph to filmmaker Jacques MANUEL (1897-1968): "to Jacques Manuel friendly JC June 1923".

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Lot n° 28

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau", Preface to The Call to Order, 1923; 10 pages on 7 sheets small in-4 (22 x 17 cm), in black ink on lined paper, in a school notebook with its original cover partly autographed (sheets separated from the cover,...

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Lot n° 29

COCTEAU Jean

La Rose de François, unpublished poem (Paris, Typographie et Imprimerie François Bernouard, collection "Alter Ego" n° 5,1923); small in-12, cardboard (a little rubbed) of purple paper with bradel, covers and back kept (Germaine Schroeder). Original edition,...

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Lot n° 30

COCTEAU Jean

Plain song, Poem (Paris, Librairie Stock, 1923); in-12, paperback. Original edition, one of the 100 copies on Lafuma Voiron pure filament paper (n° 58). Signed autograph with drawing, to the future poet Alain BOSQUET, on the fake title: "à Anatole Biske...

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Lot n° 31

COCTEAU Jean

Le Grand Écart, novel (Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain, Boutelleau & Cie, 1923); in-8, paperback (back a little yellowed). Original edition, one of 500 copies on Lafuma pure vellum yarn (No. 432). Signed autograph to filmmaker Jacques MANUEL (1897-1968),...

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Lot n° 32

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau", March 6, 1924; on 1 page in-4. "Thank you very much"...

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Lot n° 33

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau", Villefranche-sur-Mer August 1924, to Carl EINSTEIN; 1 page in-4. About his German translations. The writer Carl EINSTEIN (1885-1940) had to leave Germany after his conviction for blasphemy caused by his play Die Schlimme Botschaft,...

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Lot n° 34

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau", Le Calme Villefranche-sur-mer August 1924, to Henri MASSIS; 1 page in-4 very full, up to the margins. A few months after Raymond Radiguet's death (December 12, 1923). Cocteau thanks Massis for his article, which he read "through...

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Lot n° 35

COCTEAU Jean

Proofs corrected for The Potomak, "Final Edition",1924; 8 folded in-plane cupboards (240 x 160 mm.), numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 7, 9, 10 and 11 (end missing; fragile paper, crease cracks and fright). Corrected cupboards for the final edition of the Potomak. Six...

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Lot n° 36

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT,La Jeunesse et le Scandale, 1925; 76 pages of a small in-4 notebook (22 x 17 cm), in black ink on lined paper, brown canvas back and cardboard covers (back a little used). Conference on avant-garde art and artistic scandals. Cocteau...

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Lot n° 37

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "JC", March 7, 1925, to Émile CARBON in Montpellier; 1 page small in-4, envelope. "My dear friend The richness of our language is to be without nuance and to force frankness. So it is "Dear Friend" that you must put at the top of your list of kindnesses....

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Lot n° 38

COCTEAU Jean

Poetry 1916-1923 ** Poems. Vocabulary. Plain Chant (Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1925): in-8, paperback (small spots on the cover.). Collective publishing on publishing paper. Autograph with drawing sent to Jean MARAIS. Full-page drawing on the false title,...

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Lot n° 39

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau", L'ange Heurtebise, poem, 1925; 19 sheets of an oblong drawing album in-fol. (23.5 x 32.5 cm), beige canvas cardboard with closing tape. The only existing manuscript of this magnificent and mysterious poem. L'Ange...

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Lot n° 40

COCTEAU Jean

Autograph MANUSCRIT, Orpheus, tragedy in one act and one interval, 1925; 81 folio sheets, 63 sheets of a Canson & Montgolfier Sketchbook with detachable sheets, cardboard cover and canvas back (35 x 26 cm) and 18 flying sheets (31 x 21 cm) (the back canvas...

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Lot n° 41

COCTEAU Jean

Letter to Jacques Maritain (Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, 1926); in-12, paperback (loose cover, broken back). Original edition on publishing paper. Copy decorated with two original drawings by Cocteau, with autographed signature sent...

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Lot n° 42

JACOB Max (1876-1944)

6 ENVELOPPES with autograph inscriptions, 1926- 1927, addressed to Jean COCTEAU in Paris and Villefranchesur- mer; 5 stamped envelopes sent from Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, a letterheaded envelope from the Café- Restaurant de la Rotonde d'Orléans posted at...

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Lot n° 43

COCTEAU Jean

Orpheus. Tragedy in one act and one interval (Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, 1927); in-12, paperback, uncut. Original edition, one of the 28 copies of this play on Japanese imperial paper (No. 4), created on June 17, 1926 at the Théâtre...

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Lot n° 44

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau", 10, rue d'Anjou April 1927, to Lucien François; 1 page large in-8 (slight folds). To the Belgian-born fashion journalist, writer and playwright Lucien FRANÇOIS (1904-1963): "I would like to accept and please you, but unfortunately...

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Lot n° 45

COCTEAU Jean

Opera. Poetic works 1925-1927 (Paris, Librairie Stock, 1927); in-12, paperback, uncut, cover illustrated in colour by Christian BÉRARD; under cardboard folder by Claude-François Labarre. Original edition, one of the 28 copies of the head on Japanese imperial...

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Lot n° 46

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean",December 1927 ?, to a "dear friend"; 1 page in-4. A moving letter after Radiguet's death, evoking the transvestite Barbette. "Nerves don't feel/record everything. There are the wavelengths. The Eiffel Tower still talking. I came to the Annals. I...

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Lot n° 47

COCTEAU Jean

L.A.S. "Jean Cocteau",1927 ?; 1 page in-4 on blue paper. "How can you believe in silence on purpose. I go, I come, I get sick - I get discouraged - I find strength again etc.... It is a drama that does not stop. Sometimes I don't open the envelopes, answer...

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Lot n° 48

COCTEAU Jean

Antigone. Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, Libraire Gallimard, 1928); in-12, paperback (unspoken, first and last leaves dirty). Corrected copy for reissue. Original edition of Antigone, one of the 16 copies...

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Lot n° 49

COCTEAU Jean

King Oedipus. Romeo and Juliet (Paris, "Le Roseau d'or - Oeuvres et Chroniques", Plon, 1928); in-8, paperback, uncut. Original edition, 4962 copies printed; one of the 350 non-commercial copies, marked E.P. on alfa paper; illustrations by the author reproduced...

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Lot n° 50

COCTEAU Jean

The Secular Mystery. Indirect study essay (Giorgio de Chirico), with five drawings by Giorgio de CHIRICO (Paris, Éditions des Quatre Chemins,1928; in-8 square, paperback, blue-grey filled cover printed in red and black. Original edition, one of 2875 copies...

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