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First edition

Jean COCTEAU La danse de Sophocle

Jean COCTEAU

La danse de Sophocle

Mercure de France, Paris 1912, 12x19cm, broché.


first edition on current paper, it was only printed 7 Holland paper in large papers.
Small gaps at the bottom of the first board.
Third work of the author, rare.

Proust addressed a touching letter to Cocteau about La Danse de Sophocle : "It is moving to think that from this single flower so beautiful and sweet, so innocent and so leaning that you are, could have risen and been built, without the stem bending and ceasing to be pleasing and flexible, this immense and solid and dense column of thought and perfume. " (Proust, Correspondance, t.XI, p.148)


 


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