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Jean Marais.
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1951.
‘Masks and Faces’ collection, edited by Roger Gaillard.
Square 8vo, 121 pp. Paperback in the publisher’s illustrated slipcase (upper edges of the slipcase creased with a small tear in the top left-hand corner; a few water stains on one of the letters).
First edition with an autographed ‘ex dono’ dedication by Jean Marais.
The copy features a drawing by Cocteau on the half-title page, signed, depicting the actor’s profile.
The copy was presented by Jean Marais to Léon-Mary Estèbe (1923–2020), a French author and poet.
It is accompanied by two letters from Jean Marais, dated 1951, addressed to Léon-Mary Estèbe himself.