COCTEAU Jean. L'ANGE HEURTEBISE. Paris, Stock, 1925. With a photograph of the angel by Man Ray. Large in-4 (380 x 282 mm) of [42] pp. paperback, in flap cover. First edition. One of 25 copies on Whatman (n°10). The famous rayography on the frontispiece is exceptionally signed by Man Ray. by Man Ray. Jean Cocteau has adorned the double-title page with an original ink drawing of the Ange Heurtebise, i.e. Raymond Radiguet, titled and dedicated: "L'ange Heurtebise pris au piège par l'oiseleur. Villefranche August 29, 1960 to Bernard. Jean" A second original drawing, signed in ink, adorns the title page. Jean Cocteau, who had met Man Ray in 1921, was the first to write an article article on rayographies, in the issue of Feuilles libres where the photographer's ("Lettre ouverte à M. Man Ray, photographe américain", Les Feuilles libres). Man Ray, American photographer", Les Feuilles libres, no. 26, April-May 1922, pp. 134-135). Just as he was about to publish L'Ange Heurtebise, a poem about an angel who had come to haunt the poet after the death of his lover Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau asked Man Ray to do the frontispiece, a rayography presented on the cover as a photograph of the angel. Printed in gravure by Dujardin, this famous Man Ray photograph is usually never signed.