Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963). 25 Dessins d'un Dormeur (Lausanne, H.-L. Mermod, [1929]); in-4, paperback in filled paperback cover with title label pasted on (1st bifeuillet detached). First edition illuminated with 3 original drawings. Collection of 25 full-page drawings by Jean Cocteau, depicting portraits of Jean Desbordes, a true tribute to his lover. "These drawings are not exactly portraits of Jean Desbordes, but rather my friendship with him and respectful admiration," writes Cocteau in his preface. Edition of 213 copies, of which 200 on vellum pur fil, this one justified "ex.p.". 3 large original red and blue pen drawings: - head in profile on the cover; - large head in profile, in front of a raised red curtain revealing a harbor in the sun, covering the double title page, with this autograph signed letter: "à Crystabel cette image de la gloire d'un très pur Jean 1948"; - composition with one face and two in profile, illuminating the double preface page, with autograph letter: "à Crystabel son vieil ami" and 4 "Jean" signatures. Gabrielle Thomassin, known as Crystabel, and her brothers Franz and Pierre, young bohemians from Le Havre, lived in Magagnosc near Grasse; they had become friends with Cocteau and Jean Desbordes, who considered them "the most prodigious beings on this earth, the craziest, the purest, the most extravagant". Attached is an unidentified brown pencil drawing on Canson paper, dancer and psychedelic forms (32 x 24 cm).