GENET (Jean)
Querelle de Brest. S.l.n.d. [1947]. Large in-4, paperback, filled cover, publisher's laced cardboard folder.
Original clandestine edition, decorated with 29 original out-of-text erotic lithographs by Jean Cocteau, including a frontispiece.
Edition of 525 numbered, unissued copies, all printed on vellum à la forme.
Complete with the author's note (one flyleaf), announcing that "Une brusque lassitude a fait nous abandonner "Querelle" qui déjà s'effilochait [...].
Small paper tears to hardback jacket.