[Jean Cocteau]
A selection of writings from the journals of Jean Cocteau. Extracts are grouped under the headings of 'Childhood and Early Influences', 'The Writer's Character', 'Testimonials', 'Theatre', 'Films', 'Aesthetics', 'Moral Essays', 'France', and 'New York'.
Jean Cocteau. Edited with an introduction by Wallace Fowlie. Museum Press. London. 1957. First UK edition. Translation first published in the US in 1956. Hardback, octavo; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket, top edge red. 250 pages. Portrait frontispiece and 16 text illustrations by Cocteau. English. 240 x 165mm. 0.65kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, light ruffling to top edge with a couple of small nicks, not price-clipped; offsetting to endpapers, dustiness to top edge, small dent to final few leaves.
