Le Livre Blanc

Paris: Editions du Signe, 1930.
First Illustrated Edition.

28.5cm x 23cm. 69 pages, hand-coloured frontispiece, 1 plate of autograph facsimile, 17 hand-coloured plates. Lettered wrappers. Text is in French.

One of the foundational texts of modern gay literature. The text was first published anonymously in 1928, without illustration, in an edition of just thirty-one copies. This 1930 edition, the first illustrated and first commercially distributed edition, added eighteen drawings by Cocteau, hand-coloured by M. B. Armington, together with a facsimile of an autograph note in which Cocteau alludes to, without explicitly acknowledging, authorship. Edition limited to 450 copies. This copy on Arches paper, lacking the justification leaf.

Minor creasing to spine. Some foxing. Good Condition.

AU$2,500