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8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 11-[87], [1 leaf]colophon. 4 colour illus. in text (3 full-page with no text on verso) after designs by Cocteau. original wrs. & dw. with vignette by Cocteau below title on front dw. (short tear in lower front joint, faint foxing to last 2 leaves, glassine wr. tattered). Limited to 500 numbered copies, this one of 475 on watermarked 'v�lin Johannot'. This is the third edition of Cocteau's semi-autobiographical homo-erotic text, the second to be illustrated. All three of these editions, 1928, 1930, and 1949, were published anonymously in limited numbers.

Le Livre Blanc, or The White Book, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Jean Cocteau. It contains a series of loosely related vignettes detailing the author's homosexual experiences and reflections.