Sous le manteau de feu by Genevieve Laporte; With a Preface by Armand Lanoux
Paris: Joseph Foret, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 40 x 32 cm. Limited edition, copy 156 of 192 on papier pur fil Johannot, signed by the editor, Armand Lanoux. With 12 lithographs by Jean Cocteau, (nine in color) accompanies the poetry by Laporte. Contents loose as issued with tissue guards. Text printed in red and black. Elegant, clean and fresh copy. Laporte was a philanthropist, documentary filmmaker, artists' model, poet, and author of sixteen books. She is known for being one of Pablo Picasso's last lovers during the 1950s. Cocteau, one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist eras. Text in French. Orig. color decorated tan chemise with glassine. Fine in fine light gray slipcase backstrip lettered in red in near fine matching slipcase. Item #23986
Price: $850.00