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 Contents include: two hitherto unpublished stories by Chekhov, a correspondence between Maxim Gorky and H.G. Wells, poems by Robert Graves, a fairy tale (as told to Bernard Shaw) by Oscar Wilde, pieces by Auden, Joyce, Borges, and forty-six unpublished letters by Katherine Mansfield.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].