Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
COCTEAU, JEAN. La Difficulté d'être. 8vo, original wrappers; uncut and unopened; custom linen chemise and full russet morocco clamshell box with linen sides, image of drawing inside book reproduced on cover of box. Paris: Morihien, (1947)

Additional Details

first edition. inscribed and signed by cocteau with a drawing of an uplifted head in profile on half-title: "a S.A.R. Le Prince Henry de Bourbon avec l'hommage de Jean Cocteau." Number 514 of 1000 copies on Alma Marais from a total edition of 1,070.