COCTEAU, Jean

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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (1880-1918)

Epistolary autograph poem signed « Guillaume Apollinaire », to André Billy
Nîmes, 20th March 1915, 1 p. in-8° on Café Tortoni’s letterhead

« On his beautiful forehead shines a flame / In his hand blooms a twig »

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed “Jean Cocteau” to Louis Bonalumi
St Jean Cap-Ferrat, 29th May 1954, 1 p. in-4, autograph envelope attached

“One of my beautiful illustrated books that we always forget in the bibliography

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Lettre autographe signée « Jean Cocteau » avec quatrain poétique, adressée à un critique
Maisons-Laffitte, [1910], 4 pp. in-12 carré

 « On m’avait reproché jadis d’être trop triste, et d’être un vieux de 19 ans »

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed “Jean Cocteau” to André Figueras
N.p, 29th June 1952, 1 page in-4

“My trip to Germany makes me spoiled”

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph poem : « Sonnet »
N.p.n.d. [c. 1921], 1 p. in-4°

« Aujourd’hui le soleil, redoutable artifice… »

EUR 550,-

COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed with his star drawing to à Jean Marais
N.p.n.d [1940], 1 p. large in-4°

« I adore you and I bless you »

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph poem: « Mœurs de l’ange »
N.p.n.d. [c. 1917–1920], 1 folio page

« Quelques fois l’ange est pris pour un feu d’artifice… »

EUR 650,-

COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau » to a friend
N.p.n.d., [c. 1928], 1 p. in-4°

« I find myself in this room without having written the letter about Diaghilev »

EUR 650,-

COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed « Ton Jean » to Marianne
Milly, Monday 20th May [1958], 1 page in-4 adorned with an original drawing

« I have to do a job with Karajan at the Opera House »

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau » to Henry de Montherlant
Milly[-la-Forêt], 1 November 1962, 1 p. in-4°

« The only strange thing is that we are under this dome which refused Chateaubriand Hugo Vigny Balzac… »

EUR 650,-

COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau » to René Laporte
Paris, 22 June 1925, 2 pp. in-4

“C’est Proust et la bande de Balbec”

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COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963)

Autograph letter signed twice « Jean Cocteau » and « Jean » to Michaël Smithies
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 3rd June 1956, 6 pages in-8° with envelope

« Art escapes progress »

EUR 950,-

MAURIAC, François (1885-1970)

Autograph carte-de-visite signed « FM » [to Thierry Maulnier]
N.p.n.d. [Paris, after 1930], 2 p. in-16°

« This dear Cocteau is an impostor—a charming impostor…. »

EUR 350,-

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922)

Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
Cabourg, [5th September 1912], 3 p. 1/2 in-8°

« Fortunately, I have no memory and I forget extremely quickly the people I liked »

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