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Adolphe de Mayer - Le Prélude À l'Après-Midi d'Un Faune by Adolph de Meyer; Jacques-Émile Blanche (Text by); Jean Cocteau (Text by); Auguste Rodin (Text by)
Category: Photography
This is an exacting facsimile_and fi rst re-print overall_of Baron Adolph de Meyer_s especially rare book Le Prélude à l_après-midi d_un faune , fi rst published in 1914 in a handcrafted edition of 1,000. Today only six copies are known to exist, and this Steidl edition recreates a book from Karl Lagerf ...Show more
Erotica Drawings By Cocteau by Cocteau Jean
Category: Art and Design
Cocteau's models came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were casual pick-ups, others were lovers and friends. Among those represented here are schoolfriends who influenced his sexual development, as well as two of his most famous lovers - the precocious writer Raymond Radiguet and the actor Jean Marai ...Show more
Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
Category: Classic Fiction
Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation - Cocteau was always a poet no matter what he was writing - the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when the present version was ...Show more
Jean Cocteau Coloring Book by Jean Cocteau
Category: Humour
This book includes many of Cocteau's graphic drawings ready to be coloured in, alongside original illustrations for reference. It also includes images from the original film poster for Beauty and the Beast, playful doodles that Cocteau included in written letters to his lover Jean Marais and drawings of ...Show more
Le Livre Blanc by Jean Cocteau
Category: Biography | Series: A\Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure.
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
Category: Fiction
A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood. At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All ...Show more
MY CONTEMPORARIES by COCTEAU JEAN
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years up until his death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the astounding variety of his talents. In the fields ...Show more
Opium - The Diary of His Cure by Jean Cocteau
Category: Biography
Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Cocteau's death, this edition features original illustrations by the author. A gripping account of his drug addiction and cure, 'Opium' is recognised as one of the classics of drugs literature.
Secrets of Beauty by Jean Cocteau
Category: Art and Design
A towering figure in the worlds of literature, cinema, and visual art, Jean Cocteau was one of the most influential creative artists of the twentieth century. In this collection of brief-often aphoristic-meditations, he reflects on the nature of beauty itself. Ranging over painters, poets, and musicians ...Show more