Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

JEAN GENET (1910-1986) & JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963)


Limited, first edition of Querelle de Brest in original glassine wrapper.

N.p.,n.d. [Paris: Morihien, 1947].

Limited first edition, large quarto, number 47 of 460 copies on vélin à la forme from a total edition of 525, illustrated with 29 original lithographs by Jean Cocteau; bound in the original pale green wrappers printed with red and black, all edges uncut, glassine wrapper nicely preserved (a few gatherings starting, minor toning to edges only; wrapper panels somewhat dulled, spine sunned with minor chipping and small stains to ends); 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.