COCTEAU, J.
Cocteau, J. Le Secret professionel. Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1925. special copy: With original drawing by Yan B. Dyl (1887-1944, d. i. Bernard Morel) and signed binding by Jules-Karl Van West (1889-1969, Fléty 172).
105 pp., 1 fol. and 12 illustrations by Jean Cocteau on plates, colored with pastels, including self-portrait as frontispiece. Preceded by a colored title drawing, signed Yan B. Dyl, gouache with inscribed book title: Le secret professionel, light cardboard; to be understood as illustration for (automatic) writing, also thematized in the cover illustration: Maroquin binding, gilt. Front and back cover illustration over incrustation in red, black and white, spine gilt with striped inlays, gilt outer edges, inlaid inner covers with painted mirrors and endpapers of lilac silk, gilt head edge, upper cover bound in, corresponding slipcase - One of 440 (total 530) numbered copies in best condition. Mahé I, 542; Talvart/Place III, 180, 12B; Monod 2934; Carteret V, 51.
