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Adam 300. A special edition of the 300th issue of ADAM published in the memory of Jean Cocteau.

Inscribed first edition thus of Adam 300 by Miron Grindea et al.

Edited by Miron GrindeaMondi Miron Grunberg; W. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden; Jorge Luis Borges; Anton Chekhov; Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov; Robert Graves; James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce; Katherine Mansfield; H.G. WellsHerbert George Wells; Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde; illustrated by Jean Cocteau, Marc ChagallMoishe Shagal, Joan Miró and Amedeo Modigliani
First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 200. Olive green and turquoise pictorial cloth boards, from original illustrations by Jean Cocteau; titles stamped in gilt to spine. Dustjacket reproduces same illustrations in black and white (priced 30s net to front flap). With 16 b/w illus. by Cocteau, Chagall, Miró, Modigliani et al.
Inscribed by Miron Grindea (ed.) to flyleaf. Distributor's sticker at foot of title page.
Special 300th number dedicated to the memory of Jean Cocteau; originally printed in magazine format in 1965. Contents include: two hitherto unpublished stories by Chekhov, a correspondence between Maxim Gorky and H.G. Wells, poems by Robert Graves, a fairy tale (as told to Bernard Shaw) by Oscar Wilde, pieces by Auden, Joyce, Borges, and forty-six unpublished letters by Katherine Mansfield. [Text in English and French].
special feature
inscribed
edition
first edition thus
format
hardback
publisher
Adam Books/ Curwen Press/ Distributed by Stanmore Press Ltd
published in
London
publication year
1966
ISBN
not assigned
genre
literary fiction
language
English, French
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
GBP£ ​0.00
EUR€ ​0.00
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ref.65Y 9U7