Jean Cocteau - Opium: Journal d'une désintoxication

Important 20th century literary work by Cocteau. A first reprint (so second edition) of this illustrated diary / memoir of Cocteau's opium withdrawal, written during and after a stay at a clinic in 1928–29. It's one of his most personal and widely regarded prose works — part confessional, part aesthetic / philosophical meditation, illustrated throughout with his own distinctive b/w line drawings (over 40 in-text / hors-texte illustrations by Cocteau himself). Original printed wrappers (pink with black lettering), as issued. Faded to spine. Sight marks of tape residue to inside end papers from clean covering. A few small, neat pencil annotations. First edition, ordinary / unnumbered copy (outside the limited numbered issues on Japon impérial, vélin pur fil du Marais, or alfa) 264 pages. 20 x 13 cm

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