Essay on Indirect Criticism

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Essai de Critique Indirecte

1932175 x 227 mm

FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION, PARTLY ORIGINAL.
ONE OF 13 NUMBERED COPIES ON MONTVAL

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FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PART preceded by an introduction by Bernard Grasset and a frontispiece by G. de Chirico.

ONE OF 13 NUMBERED COPIES ON MONTVALreprinted in quarto format, number 1(after 6 copies on Japon nacré, total print run in this format 116 copies).

Essay on Indirect Criticism includes the reissue of the Secular mystery of 1928, and a similarly important unpublished work, Des Beaux- Arts considérés comme un assassinat, which is a continuation of the former and was written in 1930.

COPY IN PERFECT CONDITION.

Paris,Grasset,1932. Softcover175 x 227 mm,262 pp.

Publisher's slipcase.

Bio

Jean Cocteau

Born on 5 July 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte and died on 11 October 1963 in his house in Milly-la-Forêt. French poet, graphic designer, draftsman, playwright and filmmaker, member of the Académie française from 1955.

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