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KÂ- MONDO / KAPANDJI MORHANGE

97 - COCTEAU, Jean. Signed autograph letter addressed to Abel Bon…
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Estimate €80 - €120
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COCTEAU, Jean. Signed autograph letter addressed to Abel Bonnard. Half a page, quarto (270 x 210), no place, 1 October 1962. A light-hearted and festive letter of thanks. “You have given me immense pleasure. Firstly for the poem, and secondly because I could just picture our Mendès reciting it to me from memory whilst waving his cane”. Attached is a handwritten note quoting a letter from Abel Bonnard dated 28 October 1963, written a few days after the poet’s sudden death: ...”“Now Jean Cocteau has fallen from his tightrope, where he remained dressed as a pink and green street performer, high above a world of mud. I have no bad memories of him. He was truly a brilliant conversationalist, a playful, cheerful man, without a trace of bitterness”…
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About the sale Sale of collectable books and first editions – Varia III –
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Auction time 09/14/2026 at 2:00 PM
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