[COCTEAU Jean].

10 L.A.S. to him, 1932-1951. Marguerite CATROUX [née Jacob, wife of General Georges Catroux, French ambassador to the USSR] (Moscow [1947]), on Beauty and the Beast. Clarissa CHURCHILL (1945), during the shooting of Beauty and the Beast. André FRAIGNEAU (1951) evoking L'Ange Heurtebise, the End of Potomak, Portraits-Souvenirs. Victor GRANDPIERRE (1922 ?), with a drawing, about Antigone. Marcel JOUHANDEAU (2, 1939-1947), about Maurice Sachs, and a beautiful free letter about La Difficulté d'être. Hubert LYAUTEY (1932), thanking for the Essay of indirect criticism. Henry de MONTHERLANT (1946), about Cocteau's illustration of Pasiphaé. Georges NEVEUX, (1946), about La Belle et la Bête. Roger PEYREFITTE (1947), on La Crucifixion. Valery LARBAUD, Samuel Butler. Conference given on November 3, 1920 at the Maison des Amis des Livres (A. Monnier et Cie, 1920); small in-4, bound in brown half-maroquin, spotted paper boards, covers preserved (fragile paper with some small marginal cracks). First edition of this booklet published in Les Cahiers des Amis des Livres, 1920, sixth booklet, and printed at 1025 copies (n° 913). Autograph signed letter : "to Jean Cocteau, friendly, V. Larbaud".