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COCTEAU (Jean).

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COCTEAU (Jean).
Les enfants terribles. Novel. Paris, Grasset (Pour mon plaisir), 1929. In-16, wine-leather morocco with corners, smooth spine finely decorated with 4 mosaic lozenges and a set of gilt fleurons, author, title and date gilt, gilt fillet on covers, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved [Yseux s[u]c[cesseur] de Simier] (one corner rubbed).
First edition: one of 300 copies on Service de presse sur Alfa satiné (n° CLVII).
Autograph letter from the author, in green ink on the title page, signed "Jean" and preceded by a small star, "à madame Alphonse Daudet, cet hommage de profonde et de respectueuse amitié".
Monogrammed stamp AJD, from the library of Alphonse and
Julia Daudet.