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Jean Cocteau. Orphee. Oxford University Press, 1933.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 1st edition with Pablo Picasso frontispiece. Boards badly worn & discolored. Loss of cloth to head & spine, & previous owner's name in script on front fixed end page, otherwise fair.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Translated into English by Carl Wildman. A Fine copy in goldrod cloth covered boards, very slightly soiled along edges, lacking a dustwrapper. English only. Frontispiece illustration by Pablo Picasso. 43pp. The same narrative was used by Cocteau for his film of the same title in 1950. Q05545
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2834.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. Frontispiece by Picasso, 8.75 x 6, Original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on the fron, pp xi,43. LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (this number 74 of 100), SIGNED BY JEAN COCTEAU AND PICASSO. Cocteau has added the usual star to his signature. Two different bindings are known: black cloth and yellow cloth. "One Hundred Copies Have Been Printed on Basinwerk Paper." Translated by Carl Wildman who provides the preface. One illus apart from the frontis a b/w photo of Cocteau as Heurtebise. Very slight nicks at the very top of front and rear hinges, very slight rubbing else very good indeed with clean text.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom