Product Description: A classic of gay literature, featuring the author's original woodcut illustrations, is reissued for the 50th anniversary of Cocteau's death in 1963Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene...read more

Product Description: Guillaume Thomas is desperate for adventure, and even at 16 years old he already knows the value of lying. Too young to fight in World War I, he assumes a false noble ancestry and lies about his age so that he can become a soldier...read more

Product Description: Édith Pilaf’s only autobiographical work appeared in 1958 with a preface by Jean Cocteau. This edition also contains an epilogue by Fred Mella, an ex-soloist from the group Compagnons de la chanson, and an enlightening introduction by musicologist Marc Robine, who has also supplemented the story with valuable annotations...read more

Product Description: Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years up until his death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the astounding variety of his talents...read more

Product Description: Cruzada la fronterad e los cincueta años, con la imagen de la muerte delantey con la guerra rozándole los talones, Jean Cocteau ha llegado a la conclusión de que la comedia está ya muy avanzada. La dificultad de ser es el ajuste de cuentas que Cocteau hace consigo mismo, con el yo que se fue en la época del esplendor socia...read more

Product Description: Cocteau’s breakthrough novel on the horrors of World War I. Too young to fight, Thomas assumes a noble ancestry, adds a few extra years to his age, and becomes a soldier. In this guise, he meets the society star Princess de Bormes and her impressionable daughter Henriette...read more

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Product Description: An elegantly produced letterpress edition of this classic cult novel by one of France's great writers. For the first time, the publisher has combined the original line drawings for the story with the text, in a translation by Rosamond Lehman...read more

Product Description: Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes. Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree...read more

Jean Cocteau's models came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were casual pick-ups, others were lovers and friends. Among those represented here are school mates who influenced his sexual development, as well as two of his most famous lovers—the precocious writer Raymond Radiguet and the actor Jean Marais. Cocteau also drew many of his distinguished contemporaries; included here are candid portraits of Picasso, Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Apollinaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Isadora Duncan, and Mistinguett. Highly revealing of Cocteau's search for his own, personal "truth," these sensitively drawn and haunting works have made a profound influence on the public's perception of the graphic relations between art and literature. Margaret Crosland, who has previously published a biography of Cocteau, provides an illuminating introduction and a chronology.

Product Description: [This book is written in French.] Le sang du poète (1930) est un poème de cinéma, un film éclaireur de l'oeuvre cinématographique de Cocteau. Il éclaire son cycle orphique qui par récurrence est traversé par les rayons d'Orphée et du Testament...read more

Product Description: Illustrated by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej Klimowski. Peter Meyer’s translations of these entertaining and amusing monologues were commissioned by the BBC and performed by leading actors, including Eileen Atkins, Jill Bennett, Richard Briers, Judi Dench, Alec McCowan and Timothy West...read more