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Adolphe de Mayer - Le Prélude À l'Après-Midi d'Un Faune by Adolph de Meyer; Jacques-Émile Blanche (Text by); Jean Cocteau (Text by); Auguste Rodin (Text by)
700.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This is an exacting facsimile_and fi rst re-print overall_of Baron Adolph de Meyer_s especially rare book Le Prélude à l_après-midi d_un faune , fi rst published in 1914 in a handcrafted edition of 1,000. Today only six copies are known to exist, and this Steidl edition recreates a book from Karl Lagerf ...Show more
Erotica Drawings By Cocteau by Cocteau Jean
45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Cocteau's models came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were casual pick-ups, others were lovers and friends. Among those represented here are schoolfriends who influenced his sexual development, as well as two of his most famous lovers - the precocious writer Raymond Radiguet and the actor Jean Marai ...Show more
Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation - Cocteau was always a poet no matter what he was writing - the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when the present version was ...Show more
Le Livre Blanc by Jean Cocteau
14.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: A\Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure.
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood. At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All ...Show more
Opium - The Diary of His Cure by Jean Cocteau
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Cocteau's death, this edition features original illustrations by the author. A gripping account of his drug addiction and cure, 'Opium' is recognised as one of the classics of drugs literature.
Secrets of Beauty by Jean Cocteau
24.95 AUD
Category: Art
A towering figure in the worlds of literature, cinema, and visual art, Jean Cocteau was one of the most influential creative artists of the twentieth century. In this collection of brief-often aphoristic-meditations, he reflects on the nature of beauty itself. Ranging over painters, poets, and musicians ...Show more
The Infernal Machine and Other Plays by Jean Cocteau
39.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Reading Level: very good
Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequent ...Show more
The White Book (le Livre Blanc) by Jean Cocteau; Margaret Crosland (Translator)
11.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Le Livre Blanc, attributed to Jean Cocteau, has a twofold interest: first because of its appeal to bibliophiles as a collector's item, and second because of its assumed authorship. Cocteau never formally acknowledged the book, except in so far as he allowed it to appear in the 'authorized' bibliography ...Show more
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