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COCTEAU (Jean). Les Monstres sacrés. Paris, Gallimard,...

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COCTEAU (Jean). Les Monstres sacrés. Paris, Gallimard, 1940. In-16, 211 [of which the first 2 blank]-(7 of which the last 3 blank) pp. paperback. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 10 LETTER COPIES ON MADAGASCAR RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR. 3 full-page drawings by Christian Bérard reproduced in the text EXEMPLAIRE ENRICHED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING WITH AUTOGRAPHIC SIGNED ENVOI : " au cher Lucien Sablé, son ami Jean ". The drawing shows a profile with a starry forehead (full-page pen and ink with full-page colored pencil highlights). A journalist, cartoonist and collector, Lucien Sablé lived with the high-ranking civil servant André Dubois, and frequented Jean Cocteau and André Gide.